developing countries the combination of high natural resource rents and open democratic systems has been growth-reducing. Checks …

the growth ofcommodity exporters. This paper adopts panel cointegration methodology to explore longer term effects than …

income per capita has increased 150% since 1960, outpacing the growth of population. But we cannot be sure that incomes will …. Most important is that the rate of population growth is not the only demographic variable with consequences for economic … growth and development: the age structure of the population is also fundamentally important. …

Whereas empirical evidence on the effect of higher commodity prices onthe long-run growth of commodity exporters is …

reduce the growth of constant-price GDP and we analyze which structural policies help to minimize these losses. Structural …

I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …

have occurred frequently in the recent past. Unsurprisingly, adverse shocks reduce the short-term growth of constant …-term growth loss from adverse non-agricultural export price shocks and so are particularly ill-suited to mineral exporting …

This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity export price shocks on growth in … commodity-dependent countries. Using a large cross-country dataset, we find that negative shocks matter for short-term growth … exchange rate substantially lower the adverse growth effect of shocks. While the mitigating effect of aid is significant in …

the growth of commodity exporters. This paper adopts panel cointegration methodology to explore longer term effects than …