The negative correlation between resource endowments and GDP growth remains one of the most robust findings in the empirical growth literature, and has been coined the “resource curse hypothesis”. The policy consequences of this result are potentially far reaching. If natural resources are...

This paper focuses on Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The economic sectors have undergone significant restructuring. This restructuring has been concentrated on production capacities, quality and efficiency, thus contributing to economic...

The dynamics of industrial growth in Jevons' The Coal Question is developed in two directions. Malthus' dynamics of the supply of subsistence and population growth is transposed into one between coal supply and economic growth. A second influence lies with the dynamic evolution of Ricardian...

El objetivo de este trabajo es definir un objeto de estudio que hasta el momento es analizado desde perspectivas que tienen que ver con la ecología y el desarrollo económico, pero que la discusión como factor de conflicto no está dada. Estamos hablando de los recursos naturales. A lo largo...

This paper uses a social network approach to explain the diverging access to home-country specific advantages and the propensity to engage in resource-seeking internationalisation. The density of social networks between firm elites and political elites is used as an explanation for the type of...

In many resource-dependent states, elites may face an important trade-off between the economic benefits of diversification and the possibility for future political competition that diversification may engender. However, distinctive features of global resource markets and national political...

Natural resources have always been considered as a strategic element for thelocation of towns and the development of their economies. Recently, however,economic literature has highlighted that the effect the abundance of natural resourceshas on growth is even negative. The aim of this paper is...

According to a wide literature, oil has a negative effect on the level of democracy because of induced economic and political distortions. At the same time, however, oil fosters economic development and people’s general life conditions. Using 30 years of international data on 34 oil countries,...