Journal articles: 'Resource curse'

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Ralph and Coyle. "Resource Curse?" Transition, no. 107 (2012): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/transition.107.151.

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Zhu, Yuanyuan, Xiaoqi Zhou, Yilin Gan, Jing Chen, and Ruilin Yu. "Spatio-Temporal Differentiation and Driving Mechanism of the “Resource Curse” of the Cultivated Land in Main Agricultural Production Regions: A Case Study of Jianghan Plain, Central China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 3 (January 20, 2021): 858. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18030858.

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Cultivated land resources are an important component of natural resources and significant in stabilizing economic and social order and ensuring national food security. Although the research on resource curse has progressed considerably, only a few studies have explored the existence and influencing factors of the resource curse of non-traditional mineral resources. The current study introduced resource curse theory to the cultivated land resources research and directly investigated the county-level relationship between cultivated land resource abundance and economic development. Meanwhile, the spatiotemporal dynamic pattern and driving factors of the cultivated land curse were evaluated on the cultivated land curse coefficient in China’s Jianghan Plain from 2001 to 2017. The results indicated that the curse coefficient of cultivated land resources in Jianghan Plain generally shows a downward trend. That is, the curse phenomenon of the cultivated land resources in large regions did not improve significantly in 2001–2017. The influencing factors of the cultivated land resource curse in different cursed degree areas varied and the spatial interaction of the cursed degree areas differed as well. This study proposed a transmission mechanism of the cultivated land resource curse in Jianghan Plain. Policies from throughout the entire and within the main agricultural producing areas were proposed to adjust the cultivated land resource curse. The results and conclusions of this study will be beneficial in improving future land-use policies in major agricultural areas and reducing lag in economic development caused by the strict protection of cultivated land resources.

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Arbucias, Daniel. "The Resource Class: Measuring Economic Inequality in Resource Curse States." Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 9, no. 1 (June 2019): 22–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/naturesopolirese.9.1.0022.

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ABSTRACT This work conducts a comparative analysis on how diamonds and petroleum produce differing types of economic inequality in resource curse states, contributing to institutional entropy. By arguing for the causal primacy of resources in types of eventuated curses, this approach posits the concept of a “resource class” in diamond- and petroleum-producing resource curse states. Strength tests of resource classes against a variety of independent variables finds that petroleum-based resource classes funnel revenues to fewer, more powerful individuals than diamond-based classes, at the expense of currency stability, equal opportunity for women and minorities, and competing interest groups. Conversely, diamond resource classes tend to be more egalitarian, yet a negative correlation is observed between the market economy and diamond production among cursed states.

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Woo, Jung Moo. "Another Resource curse?" JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE 24, no. 3 (September 30, 2017): 411–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.46415/jss.2017.09.24.3.411.

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Davis, Graham A., and John E. Tilton. "The resource curse." Natural Resources Forum 29, no. 3 (August 2005): 233–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-8947.2005.00133.x.

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Le Billon, Philippe. "The resource curse." Adelphi Papers 45, no. 373 (March 2005): 11–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/05679320500129037.

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Algharabali, Barrak Ghanim, and Saud Asaad Al-Thaqeb. "The Natural Resource Curse: Is It Really a Curse?" International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 13, no. 4 (July 9, 2023): 237–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.14300.

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The Natural Resource Curse literature started with a clear consensus that dependence on natural resources have clear direct negative effects on economic growth and levels of democracy. However, the literature today reflects that the debate is still going where several papers reflects evidence that is against the consensus of the Natural Resource Curse hypothesis, which provides many open avenues for further research. This paper surveys the literature of the natural resource curse and identifies the main arguments and findings of both streams (curse stream and blessing stream). The main point that this paper highlights is that the literature is still not clear 100% whether the natural resource is a curse or a blessing. The econometric technique and the way how you define natural resources could lead to different or opposite results.

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Brass, Jennifer N. "Djibouti's unusual resource curse." Journal of Modern African Studies 46, no. 4 (November 11, 2008): 523–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x08003479.

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ABSTRACTAn extensive literature on the ‘resource curse’ posits that abundant natural resources ‘curse’ countries possessing them with negative economic, social and political externalities. Usually, scholars identify tangible resources like oil, diamonds or timber, rarely questioning whether other kinds of resources might have the same impact, and under what conditions. This paper examines how little-studied Djibouti's non-tangible resources – geo-strategic location and aid-inspiring poverty – have produced ‘curse’ effects; with an economy dominated by US and French military spending (and concomitant aid) and rents on trade passing to and from Ethiopia, tiny Djibouti suffers from this curse. It draws four conclusions. First, resource curse effects can derive from non-traditional sources. Second, leaders' policy decisions matter at least as much as the presence or absence of resources. Third, advanced countries' spending patterns in their less-developed allies often produce unintended consequences. Finally, even tiny countries can provide scholars and policy makers with new insights.

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Wang, Hua, Shi Wang, Cheng-Fu Yang, Sheng-Nan Jiang, and Yun-Juan Li. "Resource Price Fluctuations, Resource Dependence and Sustainable Growth." Sustainability 11, no. 22 (November 13, 2019): 6371. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11226371.

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The previous literature on the resource curse has not taken resource price fluctuations into account. Using panel data covering the period from 1993 to 2017 from 28 provinces in China and dynamic generalized method of moments (GMM), this article takes a fresh look at the relationship between resource dependence and sustainable economic growth and the potential transmission mechanisms taking resource price fluctuations into consideration. We find that resource price fluctuations represent an important factor when researching the resource curse, and there is a U-shaped relationship between resource dependence and sustainable economic growth. However, over the past 20 years, provinces in China remained on the left of the U-shaped curve, and there is a single negative correlation between resource dependence and sustainable economic growth. This means that resource curse occurs in nearly all provinces in China. The analysis of transmission mechanisms of indirect effects taking resource price fluctuations into consideration shows that human capital investment and physical capital investment are more important than other mechanisms, and there are considerably more indirect effects than direct effects when taking into account the total effects of the resource curse.

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Hu, Hui, Weijun Ran, Yuchen Wei, and Xiang Li. "Do Energy Resource Curse and Heterogeneous Curse Exist in Provinces? Evidence from China." Energies 13, no. 17 (August 25, 2020): 4383. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13174383.

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This study aims to find the relationship between energy resource dependence and economic growth in consideration of interprovincial heterogeneity. This paper first uses panel data from 14 provinces with rich energy resources in China between 2001 and 2016 as a whole to test the energy resource curse hypothesis. It finds that there is no obvious resource curse from a general perspective. It further makes time prediction and transmission channel analysis based on regressions of each province and classifies them into four groups according to the different degrees of the resource curse. It shows the different roles of resource dependencies in different groups. Twelve provinces are subject to different degrees of the resource curse, among which, six provinces would eventually experience negative economic growth if they increase the degree of resource dependence. Next, this study discusses the mechanism of one particular group, “invisible energy resource curse”, which is when energy resources directly promote but indirectly hinder economic growth. Finally, based on the results, the present study offers policy suggestions according to provinces’ heterogeneous curse levels.

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Auty, Richard M. "Natural resources, capital accumulation and the resource curse." Ecological Economics 61, no. 4 (March 2007): 627–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.09.006.

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Busse, Matthias, and Steffen Gröning. "The resource curse revisited: governance and natural resources." Public Choice 154, no. 1-2 (July 5, 2011): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-011-9804-0.

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Brollo, Fernanda, Tommaso Nannicini, Roberto Perotti, and Guido Tabellini. "The Political Resource Curse." American Economic Review 103, no. 5 (August 1, 2013): 1759–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.5.1759.

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This paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a political agency model with career concerns and endogenous entry of candidates. The data refer to Brazil, where federal transfers to municipal governments change exogenously at given population thresholds, allowing us to implement a regression discontinuity design. The empirical evidence shows that larger transfers increase observed corruption and reduce the average education of candidates for mayor. These and other more specific empirical results are in line with the predictions of the theory. (JEL D72, D73, H77, O17, O18)

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Benigno, Gianluca, and Luca Fornaro. "The Financial Resource Curse*." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 116, no. 1 (December 30, 2013): 58–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12047.

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Rosser, Andrew. "Escaping the Resource Curse." New Political Economy 11, no. 4 (December 2006): 557–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563460600991002.

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Wiens, David, Paul Poast, and William Roberts Clark. "The Political Resource Curse." Political Research Quarterly 67, no. 4 (July 31, 2014): 783–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1065912914543836.

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Carter, Angela V. "Escaping the Resource Curse." Canadian Journal of Political Science 41, no. 1 (March 2008): 215–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423908080177.

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Escaping the Resource Curse, Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds., Foreword by George Soros; New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, pp. xviii, 408.Escaping the Resource Curse provides economic and political analysis of resource curse theories as well as practical policy advice to governments on managing oil and gas developments. Twelve chapters by natural resource specialists from multiple disciplines discuss a broad range of oil and gas development issues in three sections, “Dealing with Oil Corporations,” “Managing the Macroeconomy,” and “Handling the Politics.” Beyond the specific policy advice elaborated in detail throughout (relating primarily to transparency), the book succeeds in its accessible analysis of resource curse theories and state-industry tensions as well as its reinterpretation of oil wealth.

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Borge, Lars-Erik, Pernille Parmer, and Ragnar Torvik. "Local natural resource curse?" Journal of Public Economics 131 (November 2015): 101–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.09.002.

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Morrison, Kevin M. "Whither the Resource Curse?" Perspectives on Politics 11, no. 4 (December 2013): 1117–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592713002855.

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What is it about oil? Whereas one might think that countries that produce the world's energy have it good, much scholarship has come to the conclusion that countries that produce oil have it bad: they are worse off economically and politically than they would otherwise be. This counter-intuitive idea has become so widespread that the “resource curse” is often discussed in popular outlets, from Thomas Friedman to Stephen Colbert. And yet scholarship is increasingly questioning whether this curse actually exists. After several decades of research on the topic, we still do not have a clear idea what it is about oil—if anything—that causes problems.

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Dimon, Joshua S. "Escaping the Resource Curse." Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement 30, no. 1-2 (January 2010): 335–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2010.9669299.

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Wenar, Leif. "Fighting the Resource Curse." Global Policy 4, no. 3 (September 2013): 298–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12069.

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Carrasco, Sebastián, and Aldo Madariaga. "The Resource Curse Returns?" NACLA Report on the Americas 54, no. 4 (October 2, 2022): 445–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2022.2145132.

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Mlachila, Montfort, and Rasmané Ouedraogo. "Financial Resource Curse in Resource-Rich Countries." IMF Working Papers 17, no. 163 (2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484310144.001.

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Ploeg, Frederick van der. "Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?" Journal of Economic Literature 49, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 366–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jel.49.2.366.

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Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests that either outcome is possible. This paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a resource bonanza induces appreciation of the real exchange rate, deindustrialization, and bad growth prospects, and that these adverse effects are more severe in volatile countries with bad institutions and lack of rule of law, corruption, presidential democracies, and underdeveloped financial systems. Another hypothesis is that a resource boom reinforces rent grabbing and civil conflict especially if institutions are bad, induces corruption especially in nondemocratic countries, and keeps in place bad policies. Finally, resource rich developing economies seem unable to successfully convert their depleting exhaustible resources into other productive assets. The survey also offers some welfare-based fiscal rules for harnessing resource windfalls in developed and developing economies. (JEL O47, Q32, Q33)

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Lu, Chenyu, Dai Wang, Peng Meng, Jiaqi Yang, Min Pang, and Li Wang. "Research on Resource Curse Effect of Resource-Dependent Cities: Case Study of Qingyang, Jinchang and Baiyin in China." Sustainability 11, no. 1 (December 24, 2018): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11010091.

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For a specific small-scale region with abundant resources, its copious resources tend to dictate the basic direction of its development, and may subsequently give rise to an industrial structure centered on the advantageous resources. This can give rise to an economic structure that lacks diversity, causing the economic development in the entire local region to fall into the dilemma of the resource curse. The present study conducts a case study from the perspective of small-scale regions, incorporating various types of resource-dependent cities in China, including Qingyang, Jinchang, and Baiyin, to interpret and analyze the resource curse effect by calculating a resource curse coefficient. Moreover, based on the regression model, the present study further discusses the empirical relations associated with the resource curse phenomenon. The results show that, regardless of whether a resource-dependent city is in the early, intermediate or late stage of its resource development, economic development is always plagued by the resource curse effect to a certain degree. Resource development cannot promote economic development, rather, it inhibits economic growth to some extent, resulting in an array of effects that are unfavorable to economic development, rendering the development unsustainable. For different types of resource-dependent cities, resource curse effect exhibits distinct characteristics. The resource curse effect is strongest for a resource-dependent city during an economic recession, is less severe during a development period, and is weakest during maturation. Resource development not only has a direct adverse impact on economic growth, but also often affects economic growth in multiple ways and on various levels through the Dutch disease effect, the crowding out effect, and the institution weakening effect. Until now, most results show that there is no obvious resource curse effect at the national and provincial level. The verification results of small-scale regions show that the resource curse effect at the city level still exists. In addition, the resource curse effect differs across different types of resource-dependent cities.

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Rahma, Hania, Akhmad Fauzi, Bambang Juanda, and Bambang Widjojanto. "Fenomena Natural Resource Curse dalam Pembangunan Wilayah di Indonesia." Jurnal Ekonomi dan Pembangunan Indonesia 21, no. 2 (July 13, 2021): 148–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.21002/jepi.v21i2.1358.

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Although the phenomenon of natural resource curse is suspected to have occurred at the regional level in Indonesia, no measurement of such a phenomenon has been carried out yet. This research is aimed to provide an index of measuring the degree of natural resource curse at provincial level in Indonesia. Two indices, the natural resource dependence index and regional sustainable development index, were used to formulate index of regional resource curse (RRCI) using geometric mean of conditional weighted product method. The results found that provinces with richer in mining tend to have higher resource curse index compared with those with less extractive resources. ------------------------------------------ Meski fenomena natural resource curse diduga terjadi di tingkat daerah di Indonesia, pengukuran terhadap fenomena tersebut belum pernah dilakukan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengukur besaran natural resource curse di tingkat provinsi di Indonesia. Dua indikator, yakni indeks ketergantungan sumber daya alam dan indeks pembangunan daerah berkelanjutan digunakan untuk menghitung regional resource curse index (RRCI) menggunakan rerata geometrik conditional weighted product method. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa provinsi dengan sumber daya alam tambang yang lebih kaya cenderung menghadapi fenomena resource curse yang lebih tinggi dibandingkan provinsi dengan sumber daya ekstraktif yang lebih sedikit.

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Hassan, Yunusa. "CRITIQUE OF RESOURCE CURSE FRAMEWORK." Journal of Global Resources 7, no. 1 (January 11, 2021): 51–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.46587/jgr.2021.v07i01.006.

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Vani, Gourav Kumar, and K. S. Aditya. "Resource Curse and India States." Indian Journal of Economics and Development 14, no. 1 (2018): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2322-0430.2018.00013.6.

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Novicevic, Milorad M., Michael Harvey, Niranjan Pati, Thomas Kuffel, and Thomas Hench. "The intangible/intellectual resource “curse”." Journal of Intellectual Capital 3, no. 4 (December 2002): 349–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14691930210448288.

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Guriev, S., and K. Sonin. "Economics of the Resource Curse." Voprosy Ekonomiki, no. 4 (April 20, 2008): 61–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2008-4-61-74.

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The paper surveys economic and political science literature on resource curse, with a primary focus on the role of institutions. These studies show that resource abundance leads now not so much to macroeconomic risks of Dutch disease as to possible deterioration of the quality of government and political institutions. In particular, cross-country evidence on the impact of rising oil prices on media freedom and quality of corporate governance is discussed.

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University of Technology. "Problematising the Resource Curse Thesis." Development and Society 41, no. 1 (June 2012): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.21588/dns.2012.41.1.001.

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Ali, Sabna, Syed Mansoob Murshed, and Elissaios Papyrakis. "Happiness and the Resource Curse." Journal of Happiness Studies 21, no. 2 (February 23, 2019): 437–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00080-3.

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Mehlum, Halvor, Karl Moene, and Ragnar Torvik. "Institutions and the Resource Curse." Economic Journal 116, no. 508 (January 1, 2006): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01045.x.

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LUONG, PAULINE JONES, and ERIKA WEINTHAL. "Prelude to the Resource Curse." Comparative Political Studies 34, no. 4 (May 2001): 367–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414001034004002.

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Andersen, Jørgen Juel, and Silje Aslaksen. "Constitutions and the resource curse." Journal of Development Economics 87, no. 2 (October 2008): 227–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.12.005.

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Zhang, Zhan. "“RESOURCE CURSE” AS A CHALLENGE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA." World of Russian-speaking Countries 6, no. 4 (2020): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2658-7866-2020-4-6-55-62.

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The term “resource curse” refers to the socio-economic problems associated with mineral resources. There is a perception that rich natural resources can be a “curse” rather than a blessing for economic development, and most countries with rich natural resources grow more slowly than countries with scarce resources. The author aims to identify the main causes of the “resource curse” phenomenon as one of the challenges for sustainable development in Russia. The following tasks are set: to analyze the origin of the “resource curse” concept, to study the analysis of Chinese, Russian, and Western researchers about the “resource curse”, to determine the conditions for this phenomenon. Special attention is paid to solving the problem of resource dependence at the regional and state levels, as well as involving cooperation at the global level on the basis of justice, equality and mutual benefit. It is noted that to get out of the “resource trap” you need not only to overcome the traditional “Dutch disease”, but also need to avoid the “American syndrome”. It was concluded that the “resource curse” can be considered as a variety of comparative advantage trap. With the development of new energy sources, countries with rich traditional energy sources face more severe challenges. Their resolution requires comprehensive reform and the creation of new growth pole for sustainable socio-economic development (which is based on political stability), on the other hand, it is necessary to avoid excessive “financialization” of the market economy.

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Kopinski, D., A. Polus, and W. Tycholiz. "Resource curse or resource disease? Oil in Ghana." African Affairs 112, no. 449 (September 26, 2013): 583–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adt056.

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Sun, ZhiQiang, and ZeXiang Cai. "Does Financial Development Hamper or Improve the Resource Curse? Analysis Based on the Panel Threshold Effect Model." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2020 (July 15, 2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4365205.

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This paper analyzes the “resource curse” and “financial threshold effect” that may exist in China and then uses the data from 30 provinces from 2004 to 2018 as research samples. We used linear regression and nondynamic panel threshold models to analyze the financial threshold effects of the “resource curse” hypothesis and the “resource curse” phenomenon. At the same time, we divided the level of financial development to verify the robustness of the research conclusions in this paper. The study found the following: (1) There is a certain correlation between the abundance of resources and economic growth. Whether this can be seen as a “curse” or a “blessing” of resources is significantly related to the degree of financial development. (2) Whether financial development can alleviate the “resource curse” depends on the degree of financial development. In the extremely scarce stage of financial resources, the resource endowment effect is obvious, and the level of economic development in resource-based regions will be higher than in other regions; when the level of financial development is low (financial resources are not scarce and have not reached a reasonable level), the phenomenon of the “resource curse” appears; when the level of financial development is highly developed, economic development benefits more from financial development, and the effects of resource endowment decline. Only when financial development is at a reasonable level can resource endowments effectively raise the level of economic development.

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Pelzman, Joseph, Yessengali Oskenbayev, and Murat Issabayev. "Does Institution Explain Natural Resource Curse?" Global Economy Journal 18, no. 4 (August 15, 2018): 20180057. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/gej-2018-0057.

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In this paper we study the natural resource curse by analyzing the cross-regional sample from Kazakhstan. Our focus is to understand if the institutional quality within the country explains the resource curse. Using the data for 14 regions in Kazakhstan between 2000 and 2010 and employing various panel data approaches, we find that the institutional quality is not a determinant of the resource curse as institution changes very slowly within the country over time. This statement surely contradicts with previous resource curse literatures that utilized cross-country sample counting the fact that institutions vary across countries. Instead here, we argue that the resource curse within the country arises as a result of commodity price volatility.

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Hoang Vuong, Quan, and Nancy K. Napier. "Resource curse or destructive creation in transition." Management Research Review 37, no. 7 (June 10, 2014): 642–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mrr-12-2012-0265.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the “resource curse” problem as a counter-example of creative performance and innovation by examining reliance on capital and physical resources, showing the gap between expectations and ex-post actual performance that became clearer under conditions of economic turmoil. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis uses logistic regressions with dichotomous response and predictor variables on structured tables of count data, representing firm performance as an outcome of capital resources, physical resources and innovation where appropriate. Findings – Key findings relevant to economic and business practice follow. First, a typical characteristic of successful Vietnamese firms in the transition period is their reliance on either capital resources or physical asset endowments. Second, poor performers exhibit evidence of over-reliance on both capital and physical assets. Third, firms that relied on both types of resources tended to downplay creative performance. Some evidence suggests that firms face more acute problem caused by the law of diminishing returns in troubled times. Fourth, the “innovation factor” has not been tapped as a source of economic growth. Research limitations/implications – This study has some limitations. The size of the survey sample is approximately 150 firms, while the potential sample of > 300 should be possible in the future. When the size increases, the research could be expanded to include further variables that will help investigate more deeply into the related issues and business implications. With regard to the implications of the study, the absence of innovations has made the notion of “resource curse” identical to “destructive creation” implemented by ex-ante resource-rich firms, and worsened the problem of resource misallocation in transition turmoil. The Vietnamese corporate sector's addiction to resources may contribute to economic deterioration, through a downward spiral of lower efficiency leading to consumption of more resources. Practical implications – Insights obtained from this study could save transition economies' resources which have almost always been considered sine qua non before any critical major policymaking, while this is not necessarily true, and in many cases, even counterproductive. Originality/value – Original data set on Vietnam stock market are collected, processed, prepared and used by the authors. Original design by the authors for regression equations with dichotomous predictor variables: dependence on endowed physical assets, reliance on capital resources and significant signs of creative performance/innovations. Original idea of viewing “resource curse” as absence of innovation and due to uncreative “destructive creation” of poor-performing commercial operations by resource-rich firms is used in the paper. We have searched the literature in business research and found that the empirical results have not been previously reported.

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Yao, Hong, Meirong Tian, Jianjun Ma, Xinlu She, and Jixi Gao. "Study on “Resource Curse” Based on the Panel Data in Coal Resource-Rich Districts of Inner Mongolia." E3S Web of Conferences 118 (2019): 01015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911801015.

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In order to analyse whether there is “Resource curse” in coal resource-rich district of Inner Mongolia such as Xilinguole, Hulunbeier, Tongliao, Chifeng, Erdos and Wuhai during “Golden ten years” (form 2000 to 2011) of coal, we developed the regression model based on the panel data of coal development intensity, manufacturing investment level, R&D and education investment level and foreign investment level, and test the “resource curse” effect in a holistic and regional way. The results showed that there exist “Resource curse” effect in Inner Mongolia along with economic development, and the effect gradually enhance. Meanwhile, the most serious “Resource curse” exist in Xilinguole, Hulunbeier, Erdos. The most important ways to weaken the “Resource curse” is industrial diversification and technological innovation. In addition, the basic way to solve or avoid “Resource curse” is strengthening the system construction, improving the government’s measures and policies on management and utilization of natural resources.

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Bearce, David H., and Jennifer A. Laks Hutnick. "Toward an Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse: Natural Resources, Immigration, and Democratization." Comparative Political Studies 44, no. 6 (March 21, 2011): 689–718. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414011401211.

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Why do many resource-rich countries maintain autocratic political regimes? The authors’ proposed answer focuses on the causal effect of labor imports, or immigration. Using the logic offered by Acemoglu and Robinson’s democratization model, the authors posit that immigration makes democratization less likely because it facilitates redistributive concessions to appease the population within an autocratic regime. This immigration argument applies directly to the political resource curse since many resource-rich countries tend to also be labor scarce, leading them to import foreign laborers. Consistent with this understanding, the authors find a statistically significant negative relationship between net immigration per capita and democratization in future periods. Their results also show that when controlling for this immigration effect, the standard resource curse variables lose significance in a democratization model. This latter result suggests that much of the so-called resource curse stems not from resource endowments per se but rather from the labor imports related to resource production.

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Yakovleva, I. I. "On the channels of “resource curse of the financial sector”." Economics and Management 29, no. 10 (November 11, 2023): 1264–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.35854/1998-1627-2023-10-1264-1276.

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Aim. To identify the channels of the “resource curse of the financial sector”.Objectives. Systematization of the main approaches to describing the relationship between the state of the financial sector and resource dependence; classification of the identified channels of the “resource curse of the financial sector”.Methods. This article is based on the analysis and systematization of existing empirical and theoretical studies in the field of “resource curse of the financial sector” and related areas. The author used the methods of synthesis, generalization, classification and system analysis.Results. The description of possible channels of resource dependence influence on financial development has been carried out. The channels of “resource curse”, investment and savings, “Dutch disease”, volatility, human and social capital, “interest groups”, institutional channels are considered. The identified channels of the “resource curse of the financial sector” (or channels of the influence of resource dependence on the state of the financial sector) include a different set of chains of cause-effect relations. Some channels (the “resource curse” channel, channels related to the “Dutch disease”, etc.) involve explanations of the “resource curse” affecting the processes of economic growth and the resource curse hypothesis itself. Such channels are classified as specific. Depending on the nature of the impact of resource endowment on the state of the financial sector, three groups of channels are identified: “resource curse”, “conditional resource curse” and “resource blessing”.Conclusions. The hypothesis of “resource curse of the financial sector” can be considered as an element of a comprehensive approach to analyzing the peculiarities of the functioning of the economy under conditions of resource dependence. One of the formulations of this hypothesis assumes a relatively lower level of financial development, at which structural changes occur in the financial sector of countries specializing in the production and export of natural resources. The nature of the channels identified allows us to argue that only under a certain set of conditions the “resource curse of the financial sector” can occur, in which the fact of resource dependence of the economy or its consequences is a constraint for the development of the financial sector. The introduced channels need empirical verification. The developed classification of channels of “resource curse of the financial sector” can serve as a starting point for such an analysis.

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Ertimi, Basem, Tamat Sarmidi, Norlin Khalid, and Mohd Helmi Ali. "The Policy Framework of Natural Resource Management in Oil-Dependence Countries." Economies 9, no. 1 (February 23, 2021): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/economies9010025.

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A variety of critical empirical studies are interested in and focused on complex issues related to natural resource management and resource curse, whilst less can be found combining diverse factors that affect the dynamics of this curse and mitigate it. The case study of Norway is used as the benchmark policy framework in oil-rich countries to invest oil revenues and set correct fiscal policies. In this study, an analytical framework was structured to evaluate the coherence of resource management with sustainability as a starting point, contributing to further assessments of how the adaptation of such policies is incorporated in resource management to mitigate the resource curse. The analysis also suggests that oil-rich countries can learn from Norway’s experience to mitigate this resource curse and utilize oil revenues in the interest of the country. In addition, the analysis helps in effective management and the protection of ecological resources as these are becoming an increasingly important strategic part of natural wealth. This study aimed to provide an overarching framework designed to help conceptualize key issues of natural resource management and the resource curse in oil-rich countries and understand the challenges facing those countries in managing the natural resources.

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Clootens, Nicolas, and Djamel Kirat. "Threshold regressions for the resource curse." Environment and Development Economics 25, no. 6 (August 10, 2020): 583–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x20000297.

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AbstractThis paper analyzes the behavior of cross-country growth rates with respect to resource abundance and dependence. We reject the linear model that is commonly used in growth regressions in favor of a multiple-regime alternative. Using a formal sample-splitting method, we find that countries exhibit different behaviors with respect to natural resources depending on their initial level of development. In high-income countries, natural resources play only a minor role in explaining the differences in national growth rates. On the contrary, in low-income countries, abundance seems to be a blessing but dependence restricts growth.

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Ola, Kehinde Oluwole, and Daniel Chibueze Onyejiuwa. "Resource Endowment and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan African Countries." Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 11, no. 7 (June 15, 2023): 13–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/gjahss.2013/vol11n71331.

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This study assessed the evidence of resource curse and identified whether Dutch disease explained resource curse in selected sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries if evident. The study used Secondary data for 14 sub-Saharan African countries endowed with natural resources. Annual data from 1981 to 2017 obtained from the World Development Indicators (2017) and open data for Africa. The study adopted panel cointegration and fixed effects panel data estimation. The results showed a positve and statistically significant relationship between resource endowment and economic growth. This implied that resource endowment has a positive effect on economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries, and there is no basis to identify whether Dutch disease explain resource curse in SSA countries. The study concluded that there is no evidence of resource curse found in SSA countries and suggested that resource-endowed SSA countries should discover profitable investment in order to re-invested proceeds from natural resources into other form of renewable physical capital assets.

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Kinnaman, Thomas C. "A New Perspective on the Natural Resource Curse." World 4, no. 4 (October 23, 2023): 670–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/world4040042.

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Early papers found empirical support for a natural resource curse—the notion that exporting natural resources is detrimental to economic growth. Later papers, using reportedly improved econometric models and data, largely reversed these early findings by estimating that natural resources improve economic performance. However, this changing coefficient on natural resource dependence over time may not only be a function of model or data quality. Masked by this evolution in the economics literature is the possibility that the fundamental relationship between natural resources and economic performance has changed over the past several decades. This paper sheds a new perspective on the substantial resource curse literature by repeatedly estimating a single econometric model on data that evolve over time. The coefficient on natural resource dependence is estimated to steadily increases with the passage of time from a value that is negative and significant (for 1970, the basis for much of the early literature) to a positive and significant value a few decades later. Whatever natural resource estimated initially with data from 1970 seems to have evolved into a resource blessing over time.

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Vasilyeva, Olga. "Natural Resources: How to Measure Them in ‘Resource Curse’ Studies." Spatial Economics 4 (2018): 67–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2018.4.067-091.

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Reeves, Jeffrey. "Resources, Sovereignty, and Governance: Can Mongolia Avoid the ‘Resource Curse’?" Asian Journal of Political Science 19, no. 2 (August 2011): 170–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02185377.2011.600165.

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Wick, Katharina, and Erwin H. Bulte. "Contesting resources – rent seeking, conflict and the natural resource curse." Public Choice 128, no. 3-4 (April 13, 2006): 457–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-005-9010-z.

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