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Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001

This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and … protection, corruption, and income inequality. The cross-sectional data show, moreover, that the share of the primary sector in …

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Resource rents, democracy and corruption : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …

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International trade in natural resources : practice and policy

Ruta, Michele; Venables, Anthony - 2012

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to …

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Harnessing windfall revenues : optimal policies for resource-rich developing economies

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Venables, Anthony - 2009

A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...

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Resource windfalls, macroeconomic stability and growth : the role of political institutions

Arezki, Rabah; Hamilton, Kirk; Kazimov, Kazim - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...

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Resources, agriculture, and economic growth in economies in transition

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2000

growth around the world. The paper presents empirical, cross-sectional evidence of various aspects of this relationship in … heavy dependence on natural resources and agriculture may result in rent seeking (e.g., corruption) and policy failures (e …

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Ending Covid-19 vaccine apartheid through vaccine donations : the influence of supply chains

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023

and institutional weakness (corruption) aspects. Results, based on data from more than 131 nations, show that strengthened … supply chains reduced donations. The impacts of corruption and logistics performance likely persisted from pre-COVID times … vaccine deals. Finally, donations received through COVAX were driven by qualitatively similar factors, except corruption did …

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Containing tariff evasion

Anne, Clement; Chalendard, Cyril; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2023

To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies between exporters and importers are prevalent but small, with over two-fifths of importers...

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A crook is a crook ... but is he still a crook abroad? : on the effect of immigration on destination-country corruption

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Redlin, Margarete - 2014

This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. We employ different estimation methods using Fixed Effects … find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level, immigration …

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Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014

hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002 - 2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15 - 64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …

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