Why are natural resources a curse in Africa, but not elsewhere?

Fabrizio Carmignani; Abdur Chowdhury

We study the nexus between natural resources and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and find that SSA is indeed special: resources dependence retards growth in SSA, but not elsewhere. The natural resources curse is thus specific to SSA. We then show that this specificity does not depend on the type of primary commodities on which SSA specializes. Instead, the SSA specificity appears to arise from the interaction between institutions and natural resources

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Year of publication:	[2010]
Authors:	Carmignani, Fabrizio ; Chowdhury, Abdur R.
Institutions:	University of Queensland / School of Economics (contributor)
Publisher:	[Brisbane] : School of Economics, University of Queensland
Subject:	Natürliche Ressourcen \| Natural resources \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Subsahara-Afrika \| Sub-Saharan Africa
Description of contents:	Description [pandora.nla.gov.au]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (42 S., 204,41 Kb) graph. Darst.
Series:	School of Economics discussion papers series. - Brisbane : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2188017-7. - Vol. 406
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Title from title screen (viewed on October 11, 2010) Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-42) Text and graphics Mode of access: Internet via the World Wide Web. Available at: http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/abstract/406.pdf System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader to read pdf file Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
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