The political economy of the resource curse : a literature survey

By A. Rosser. 2006

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How Does Taxation Affect the Quality of Governance (2007, background): “For a more recent review see Rosser (2006).”
Empirical evidence on the resource curse hypothesis in oil abundant economy (2014, background): “The conformist's view before the 1980s was that natural resources positively influence the economic prosperity of a country (Rosser, 2006).”
How Important is Oil in Nigeria’s Economic Growth? (2012, background): “Some other reasons why resource-rich countries might suffer resource curse are reduced returns to human investments, precipitated by natural resource exploitation (Gylfason, 2001a; b) and poor economic management that leads to inefficient resource allocation (Rosser, 2006).”
Natural resources, financial development and institutional quality in Africa: Is there a resource curse? (2018, background): “…literature exists on whether natural resource revenues are a curse or blessing to economic growth/development (Allcott and Keniston, 2014; Carmignani, 2013; Aragon and Rud, 2013; Frankel, 2012; Van der Ploeg, 2011; Rosser, 2006; Bulte et al., 2005; Sala-iMartin and Subramanian, 2013; Auty, 2001).”
Growth, Development and Natural Resources: New Evidence Using a Heterogeneous Panel Analysis (2011, unknown): “Colombia (2000-2006), and Oman (1983-1989) but available from the IMF IFS database and so we make use of that instead.”
Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Resource Abundance, Dependence and the Onset of Civil Wars (2009, background): “Other reasons why resources might be linked to conflict have to do with the probability of foreign intervention (Rosser 2006) and the probability of suffering from economic shocks (e.”
“GOOD GOVERNANCE” AND THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (2008, background): “As Rosser (2006) concludes from his extensive survey of the resource-curse literature, while many studies provide convincing evidence linking natural-resource abundance to negative development outcomes, little of this research adequately examines the role that social forces play in shaping these…”
The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels (2015, background): “A subsequent review by Andrew Rosser (2009) critically reflected on the resource curse literature by devoting a separate discussion to the causes, consequences and remedies of the curse.”
Making REDD work for the poor : a poverty environment partnership (PEP) report (2008, background): “Views differ on why this occurs: some studies link poor economic performance to rational rent-seeking by elites, whilst others stress that natural resource abundance leads to the formation or maintenance of particular regime types (Rosser 2006).”
Natural Resources and the ‘Quality’ of Economic Development (2011, background): “In addition, as highlighted by a number of studies, natural resources can produce detrimental effects on institutions and politics (Rosser, 2006; Kolstad and Wiig, 2009).”
Political Economy of the Mining Sector in Ghana (2011, background): “For detailed explanation and suggested policy recommendations on the resource curse phenomenon, see Auty (1993); Sala-i-Martin and Subramanian (2003); Rosser (2006); Collier and Goderis (2007); Humphreys, Sachs, and Stiglitz (2007); and Kolstad and Søreide (2009).”
Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth (2012, unknown): “…model that can nest much of the existing work on the empirics of economic growth, from the "Barro cross-sectional regression" to the static and dynamic panel data techniques: (1) 1 See also Rosser (2006) and van der Ploeg and Venables (2009) for an extensive survey of the resource curse paradox.”
The impact of China on sub-Saharan Africa (2007, background): “However, recent research shows that rents derived from the extraction of 'point resources' (oil, gas, diamonds and minerals) have, since the 1970s, clearly encouraged authoritarian rule, high military expenditure, corruption and violence (Rosser, 2006).”