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Hubner, Armin. "Ghana and the resource curse." Thesis, Webster University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1525124.
Full textGhana has experienced solid economic and social development during the years before the finding of oil. Now that oil has been found, one should not forget that there are many countries in Africa which are rather cursed than blessed with natural resources. This phenomenon is known as the resource curse or more specifically the oil curse. This paper attempts to uncover the most challenging areas for Ghana, when its government wants to lift the resource curse. It further shows that Ghana is well prepared to tackle the negative effects of being oil abundant, by using the well-established models and concepts, which build on empirical analysis. Literature provides a lot to describe the oil curse, including the so called Dutch disease as well as conflicts, corruption, violence and bad governance, to mention a few. This paper will - in a case study approach- apply the concepts on Ghana and -with a qualitative comparative research design- expose the best practices from which Ghana can learn most. It will also show that Ghana's relatively good institutions will be able to implement most of the suggested policies which oppose the resource curse.
The outcome will be that Ghana's political environment, although far from perfect, is well prepared to deal with windfall oil revenues. Furthermore Ghana due its good structure of institutions and its stabilizing macroeconomic policies in the last decades, Ghana will be able to engage in best practice policies.
Jones, Yakama Manty. "Debt overhang and natural resources : revisiting the resource curse hypothesis." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2014. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/95/.
Full textDiallo, Thierno Amadou. "Beyond the resource curse : mineral resources and development in Guinea-Conakry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98930.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-76).
Natural resource endowments are no guarantee of socioeconomic development. Many developing countries are rich in natural resources (minerals, oil, gas, hydropower), and yet many of their citizens remain in poverty and their economies have failed to grow; the "paradox of plenty". Despite its natural resources (bauxite, iron ore, diamond, gold and hydropower), Guinea has been unsuccessful in marshaling and leveraging these resources to produce socioeconomic development. The critical challenge for Guinea, just like many resource-rich countries, is governance failures- decades of military rule, corruption and resource mismanagement after centuries of French colonial rule. This thesis uses secondary sources and data to argue that the resource curse as a phenomenon in resource-rich countries has limitations as it does not offer these countries a path for how their resources could be used to propel social and economic development. To overcome the so-called resource curse, this thesis argues that the key to unlocking economic and social development in mineral-rich Guinea, is investing its resource-generated revenue to develop the country's infrastructure services. Infrastructures such as roads, telecommunications, water, power, education and health facilities are the foundation for socioeconomic development. The new hope for Guinea rests in the fact that after more than fifty two years of military and authoritarian rule, the country transitioned to "democracy" for the first time in 2010. This coupled with the emergence of new global players such as China and other emerging countries, with their quests to secure stable natural resources to fuel their industries, comes a new window of opportunity for resource-rich countries such as Guinea to leverage and link its extractive industries to develop key infrastructure services. Guinea could leverage its bauxite and iron ore industries to transition to onsite transformation of these materials, whose transformation is energy-intensive. Guinea could then leverage the demand for power from the onsite transformation to develop its untapped hydropower generation capacity to supply both mines and the rest of the country. However, this will not happen without governance reforms in Guinea's extractive industries and mining code.
by Thierno Amadou Diallo.
M.C.P.
Anne, Clément. "Beyond the resource curse : Macroeconomic strategies in resource dependent economies." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CLFAD024.
Full textAs a response to the intensive literature regarding the direct or indirect impacts of natural resources on economic development, this thesis intends to analyze resource dependent economies beyond the scope of the resource curse and provide analyses on 3 key macroeconomic challenges faced by those countries. Unlike the trend to focus only on a set of countries depending on their resources produced or their level of economic development, this thesis does not discriminate according to these factors to include countries sharing their exposure to international commodity price volatility as a major threat, while analyzing countries which may have had various successes in their management of resource wealth.First, it empirically analyzes the determinants of fiscal procyclicality which is the tendency of fiscal authorities to give fiscal policy responses in the same direction as the economic cycle, restrictive in case of a decrease of economic growth and expansionary in the periods of sustained economic growth. Based on a sample of 81 countries over 1992-2012, this study assesses a variety of potential candidates and find an importance of political-economy determinants in limiting fiscal procyclicality especially in the higher part of the business cycle. It also provides some support to the idea that Sovereign Wealth Funds are more effective than Fiscal Rules to limit fiscal procyclicality especially through a limitation of expenditure growth in good economic periods.The next chapter provides an empirical study to the relationship between commodity prices and export diversification, a challenge especially important to assess whether resource dependent economies used commodity price booms as opportunities to diversify their economy away from the resource sector. Based on a panel of 78 countries over 1970-2012 it finds a strong empirical support to the impact of commodity price booms on export concentration especially through a concentration of the mix of already exported products (intensive margin) during periods of commodity price booms and an increase of export diversification during periods of commodity price busts. It also highlights the higher concentration of exports during the 2000s commodity price boom than following the 1970s boom, which may have complicated the recovery of those countries since the reversal of commodity prices to a low level.Finally, it provides a critical analysis to the concept of Sovereign Wealth Funds which has been a trendy recommendation for countries to manage their resource wealth. After providing a critical review to what this notion may cover, it provides a framework to understand funds labeled as Sovereign Wealth Funds in a continuum of public funds. This enables to give some recommendations regarding the macroeconomic challenges those funds may help managing in the context of resource dependent economies as well as the factors which could limit a fund's relevance or effectiveness.This thesis highlights the relevance of studying key challenges faced by resource dependent countries instead of focusing to the long-lasting debate of the resource curse and calls for future works to help policymakers in those countries to implement sound macroeconomic strategies for their economies
Schubeis, Jonatan. "Can Good Institutions Avert the Resource Curse?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-415515.
Full textHolland, Caroline M. "An oil curse? : resource conflict onset and duration /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10175.
Full textSharpe, Margie E. "Corruption the true cause of the resource curse? /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1171902147.
Full textHolland, Caroline M. 1986. "An Oil Curse? Resource Conflict Onset and Duration." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10175.
Full textThis study examines the effect oil has on the onset and duration of conflict. In the "resource curse" literature, researchers argue that a state's abundance in natural resources can raise the likelihood of civil war. Such findings are largely based on correlations from large-n statistical studies or are hypotheses from individual case studies. These approaches fail to check the causal validity of key variables in multiple cases. Using a data-set comprised of sixteen countries that have experienced both oil extraction and civil war, this study conducts a qualitative causal variable analysis within these cases, while also checking the causal significance of key variables across cases. This study of oil-related civil wars analyzes the cross-case validity and overall relevance of: rebel greed, citizen grievances, unemployment in oil-rich regions, state military spending, clientelistic patterns of oil rent distribution, and oil-sector nationalization schemes.
Committee in Charge: Dr. Jane K. Cramer, Chair; Dr. Shaul E. Cohen; Dr. Anita M. Weiss
Roberts, Danielle M. "The Resource Curse and Economic Freedom: A Bayesian Perspective." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1132.
Full textAl, Sabah Meshaal Jaber Al Ahmed. "Resource curse reduction through innovation : the case of Kuwait." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2011. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/resource-curse-reduction-through-innovation(fce02ef6-569b-4de0-b69c-915efe81387d).html.
Full textMotlhabane, Kutlwano. "Mineral wealth versus resource curse - the stage is set." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30412.
Full textGuliyev, Rashad <1998>. "The resource curse trap: rentierism and diversification in Azerbaijan." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20740.
Full textHattendorff, Christian [Verfasser]. "The Resource Curse Revisited : Three Essays on Resource Abundance and Financial Development / Christian Hattendorff." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1061023869/34.
Full textAldobashi, Hussein. "Qatar: the resource curse factor and prospects for economic diversification." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/17980.
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Qatar’s rapid development and modernization offer great rewards as well as risks. The rapid development in Qatar has been fueled almost exclusively through wealth created from trade in petrochemicals. This source of wealth places Qatar at risk from what has been identified as the natural resource curse. The risk lays in dependency on one commodity for economic growth and its concomitant degradation of broader development of non-petrochemical sectors and human capital. This thesis explores the degree to which Qatar is subject to the resource curse and how the most commonly prescribed solution to the resource curse – economic diversification – will be successful in Qatar’s continued development.
Mwansa, Mumamba Chitumwa. "Reviewing the definition of the natural resource curse and analysing its occurence post-1990." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013243.
Full textJohnston-Taylor, Nketti Hannah Adeyemi Nadine. "The resource curse and natural resource environmental governance in Sierra Leone : case study Kono District." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9315/.
Full textTeslyuk, Nataliya. "Natural resources: a curse or a blessing? Political incentives in the resource allocation (example of gazprom)." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2007. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13105.
Full textStenersen, Eirik Nøren. "On the Causes of the Conditional Resource Curse : En empirisk paneldatastudie." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-15394.
Full textGapa, Angela. "Escaping the Resource Curse: The Sources of Institutional Quality in Botswana." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1019.
Full textPettersson, Jan. "Three empirical studies on development : democracy, the resource curse and aid /." Stockholm : Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-326.
Full textGerard, Bryce. "A Natural Resource Curse: Does it Exist Within the United States?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/158.
Full textPike, Jonathan R. "A Resource Curse for Institutions: Rent Dependency and Quality of Government." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1338.
Full textThe Natural Resource Curse literature proposes to explain why and to what extent resource-wealthy countries have poor economic growth outcomes. Most research focuses on direct economic explanations, considering the role of governing institutions exogenously if at all. One emerging branch of explanations attempts to address this shortcoming, focusing on the indirect effects of institutional deterioration on economic outcomes in resource-rich countries. I add to this emerging literature by performing an econometric analysis of 16 oil-producing nations, examining the impact of national oil rent dependency on 12 dimensions of government quality from 1987-2008. I find that oil dependency has a significant negative impact on government quality in 11 of the 12 dimensions. I also find that controlling for preexisting levels of democracy does not significantly mitigate institutional resource curse effects. This runs counter to findings about economic effects, which tend to disappear when democracy levels are high
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics Honors Program
Discipline: College Honors Program
Discipline: Economics
Thompson, Louise Frances. "The Royal Bafokeng nation, a Case Study for the resource Curse." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14726.
Full textKlisáková, Jiřina. "Hospodářskopolitické události Bolívie za vlády Evo Moralese." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-4359.
Full textNsaikila, Melaine Nyuyfoni. "Poverty, resource endowment and conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa a reexamination of the resource curse hypothesis." Thesis, Western Illinois University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586512.
Full textContrary to the logical conclusion that the more natural resources a country has or controls, the more prosperous, rich and happy will be its people, the evidence from many Sub-Saharan countries is pointing to a different direction with numerous conflicts occurring mostly near mineral deposits or in countries heavily endowed with natural resources of various sorts. This paper seeks to tackle the basic questions of a sub-Saharan African and any person interested in the region; why are there so many conflicts in the region? Why is there absolute poverty despite the presence of enormous natural resources? What are the factors contributing to the present problems facing the region? This paper establishes the relationship between poverty, resource endowments and conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper reviews literature, stressing on the different conditions under which resource abundance can and have been a primary cause of conflicts. It argues that poverty and conflicts have re-enforced each other and that natural resources have played a role. The paper also makes use of conflict, resource and poverty data among other variables to establish the probable cause for the numerous conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper suggests statistically that Political Stability and Absence of violent conflicts can only be altered by the lack of sustainable economic opportunity, failure to control corruption and rising levels of poverty. It is worth noting that the resource variables are not statistically significant. This however, do not dismiss the role of natural resources in the present conflicts of the region because the trend is observable that most conflict ridden countries in the Sub-Saharan African region are resource rich. It rather lays an emphasis on the fact that resource revenues could be used to avert the current situation by provision of basic needs like shelter, potable water, security, accountable institutions, education and the promotion of enterprise that will be a guarantor of sustainable economic opportunities. The paper employs Maslow's Human needs theory for some explanations and also multiple regression, using panel data for statistical analysis. Fixed and random effects estimation techniques are used, and other statistical testing to determine the validity of the different variable coefficients generated. The paper suggests concrete economic and policy recommendations to the problems enumerated that could leapfrog the region out of the current bad situation it has been in for decades.
Petrovsky, Nicolai. "Does Natural Resource Wealth Spoil and Corrupt Governments? A New Test of the Resource Curse Thesis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4582/.
Full textHong, Anne Kim. "Examining Sachs and Warner's model of natural resource curse implications and lessons for natural-resource rich countries /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/444602459/viewonline.
Full textBellerud, Carl. "The Natural Resource Curse at the Regional Level? : The Case of Sweden." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-80073.
Full textTeorin om naturresursernas förbannelse förutspår att länder med ett överflöd av naturresurser kommer att ha en lägre ekonomisk tillväxt. Stämmer även denna teori på regional nivå? Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka om resursförbannelsen existerar på regional nivå i Sverige samt att undersöka om olika typer av naturresurser har olika påverkan på den regionala inkomstutvecklingen i landet. Metodiken för att besvara detta bygger på en ekonometrisk (OLS) analys med två olika paneldataset med skilda tidsintervaller, 2000–2017 och 2007–2017. De resultat som baseras på det ena datasetet visar att naturresurser inte har en påverkan på inkomstutvecklingen på svensk länsnivå, samt att olika typer av naturresurser inte heller har en påverkan på den regionala inkomstutvecklingen. Det andra datasetet påvisar dock att det finns ett positivt förhållande mellan regional inkomstutveckling och naturresurser, men detta resultat är inte robust.
Malmström, Martin, and Jonas Poulsen. "Namibia’s Resource Curse? : How Namibia’s diamond dependency has affected their economic growth." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Economics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-113695.
Full textMalkani, Anum. "From Riches to Rags: The Political Economy of the Natural Resource Curse." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/142.
Full textChultem, Nyamsuren. "The resource curse in Mongolia: mineral wealth, institutional quality, and economic performance." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/42598.
Full textMongolia is endowed with abundant natural resources from which it has generated a high level of economic growth over the past decade. Nevertheless, the country has already experienced some symptoms of the natural resource curse. This thesis argues that the quality of a country’s governance and institutions plays a crucial role in the management of resources, and therefore, it examines the political-economic environment of Mongolia’s resource sector. This study examines Mongolia’s performance on three steps of the natural resource management value chain: sector organization and the process of contract awards, the collection of taxes and royalties, and revenue distribution and public investment management. Furthermore, this thesis demonstrates that, while many resource-rich, developing countries experience civil war and conflict due to mismanagement of resources, Mongolia is not currently on this path. It concludes, however, that if the country does not effectively manage its resource sector, Mongolia’s young democracy may deteriorate.
Harry, Priya. "Preventing the resource curse? : an examination of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10598.
Full textAhmadov, Anar. "A conditional theory of the 'political resource curse' : oil, autocrats, and strategic contexts." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/618/.
Full textAlhinai, Alkhatab. "Economic diversification obstacles in resource-dependent states through the lens of resource curse theory : Oman as a case study." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12446/.
Full textDietsche, Evelyn. "'Good governance' of the extractive resources sector : a critical analysis." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2014. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/044143c9-8552-490d-a849-207c1df4583c.
Full textFord, Daniel R. "Countering the resource curse: a comparative analysis of political economy for Chile and Australia." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/45854.
Full textThis thesis attempts to explain how advanced economies with large mining sectors, like those of Australia and Chile, have managed to avoid the resource curse. Minerals (iron ore and coal) account for over two-thirds of Australia’s exports, and minerals (copper) amount to over two-thirds of Chilean exports as well. Hence, Australia and Chile have been labeled as commodity-based economies in the past. There is some validity to this claim, as Chile has gained significant fiscal revenues from copper sales, and Australia has experienced a mining boom over the past two decades, coupled with the rise of China. This work examines the relationship that natural resource mining and governance has to the political economy landscape of both countries. Using a historical institutionalist lens, various trends in the political economies of both nations are examined in relation to resource curse factors, such as developmental indicators, mining-specific policy and rents therefrom, and Dutch Disease. This thesis argues that the governments of both countries developed very different means to manage commodity market boom and bust cycles. Specifically, Chile has innovated counter-cyclical fiscal policies and copper funds, while Australia has pursued a more neutral fiscal policy with little intervention into mining by the commonwealth (until recently). The strengths and weaknesses apparent to both governments’ management of their mining sectors is explained and compared against resource curse factors. Forecasting is also presented to include possible ramifications from recent changes to the political economy of both countries in light of large downward swings in commodity prices and a slowdown in China.
Olayele, Bankole Fred. "Trade, fiscal transfers, diversity and the resource curse : evidence from Canada and the US." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/82468/.
Full textCourvisanos, Madeline. "BP in Papua: A chance for development or the return of the resource curse?" Thesis, Department of Government and International Relations, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7915.
Full textAmundsen, Kaja Vollan. ""The Resource Curse in India" : Can the Resource Curse Literature Explain the Divergent Economic Growth Among the Indian States? A Time-Series Cross-Section Analysis of 15 Indian States from 1980 to 2009." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-25787.
Full textKristiansen, Daniel Storholthe. "Economic and Institutional Performance in Mozambique: Implications for the Coming Resource Boom." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-23762.
Full textOge, Ibrahim Kerem. "Transparency Promotion in Resource-Rich Countries: External Remedies to Reverse the Curse in the Caspian." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3711.
Full textMy research builds upon the resource curse and external democracy promotion literatures to assess the prospects of transparency advocacy in non-democratic resource-rich countries. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan are all rich in hydrocarbons; however, in the last two decades, they have shown significant variation in terms of the transparency of oil revenues and expenditures. While Azerbaijan undertook substantial reforms to make its government revenues from oil almost completely transparent, Turkmenistan refrained from disclosing its revenues from natural gas exports. Finally, Kazakhstan, while undertaking some reforms, lagged behind Azerbaijan in pursuing a fully transparent revenue management policy. In authoritarian countries, transparency-related governance reforms are shaped by an interaction between international and domestic factors. Transparency in natural resource revenues is promoted by global actors including states, international financial institutions, and transnational networks as a measure to prevent or minimize corruption and mismanagement of revenues. In all three of my cases, the lack of public accountability and limited civil society activism prevented domestic agents from carrying out successful institutional reforms. In each case, the preferences of the elites have been important determinants of the degree of economic reform. I argue that transparency promotion from outside is expected to lead to institutional reform when it is matched with strong incentives for compliance. These incentives are created mostly by external actors, including states, international organizations, and international companies; yet they are also conditioned by the domestic economic and political landscape. Three cases from the Caspian region fully demonstrate the potential for different institutional outcomes among resource-dependent countries. A comparison of these countries' experiences will not only shed light on our understanding of the resource dependency and institutions, but also explain the institutional variance among the many non-democratic countries
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science
Pourmasoumi, Langarudi Saeed. "A System Dynamics Approach to the Political Economy of Resource-dependent Nations." Digital WPI, 2016. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-dissertations/432.
Full textOrihuela, José Carlos. "Institutions and institutional change: rethinking the ‘resource curse’ from the news institutionalisms and the Peruvian experience." Politai, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/92375.
Full textLa ‘maldición de los recursos’ es un término que refiere a un conjunto heterogéneo de teorías sobre el por qué la abundancia de recursos naturales perjudica la trayectoria de una economía política. Para cada tipo de ‘maldición’, argumentamos que pasar del preguntar ‘por qué’ a examinar ‘cómo’ y ‘cuándo’ permite una más afinada aproximación conceptual y empírica al vínculo entre recursos naturales y cambio social, sea este el desarrollo económico o el político. Concretamente, el microestudio de actores e instituciones en contexto histórico aporta luces en áreas donde el macroestudio de agregados estadísticos no puede aportar. Para ello, el uso crítico de los marcos conceptuales de los nuevos institucionalismos en las Ciencias Sociales potencia la profundidad de la investigación empírica. La experiencia peruana contemporánea muestra la variedad, y variabilidad, de los desafíos económico-políticos del desarrollo basado en recursos.
Rantao, Khetha-Okuhle. "The role of MNCs as a channel of the resource ‘curse’ : insights from gas-rich Mozambique." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74837.
Full textMini Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
MPhil (International Business)
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Parks, Jacob. "OIL, POLITICS OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND THE PERSIAN GULF." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4109.
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Political Science MA
Svensson, Evelina. "Conflicting interests in natural resource management : - A case study on mining in northern Sweden." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Miljövetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-33443.
Full textAndersen, Chinbuah Arturo Alfred. "The societal metabolism and resource curse of developing economies : a comparative study of Ghana and Ivory Coast." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16901/.
Full textKwarteng-Antwi, Liza. "Dealing with resource curse syndrome in the Ghanaian oil sector through reforms of appropriate laws and policies." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64618.
Full textMini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
Centre for Human Rights
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Hilldén, Joakim, and Johan Mesterton. "Diamonds and sustainable growth : The success story of Botswana." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6353.
Full textNumerous studies have confirmed a statistically significant negative relationship between natural resource abundance and economic growth. This has been labeled “The Resource Curse”. In this paper we try to explain why Botswana, a country heavily dependent on its diamond industry, has managed to generate sustainable growth. Economists have advanced several explanations for the negative impact of natural resources on long-term growth. This paper focuses on the following important problems: First, a boom in a natural resource can pull resources away from other sectors of the economy, thus harming their international competitiveness, a phenomenon called the Dutch disease. Second, abundance in natural resources may lead to poor institutional quality in many countries. Thanks to conservative fiscal policies and accumulation of foreign reserves the local currency did not appreciate during the boom, and Botswana avoided the most severe symptoms of the Dutch disease. Historical tradition of democratic procedures and sound institutions at the time of diamond discovery has contributed to a high institutional quality in Botswana.
Matheis, Michael Roy. "Mining Booms and Busts: New Evidence on the Consequences of Mining in the U.S." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556593.
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