This study analyses the economic developments in Yemen from the 1970s to today in the context of the resource curse … (economic) analyses, I confirm that post-reunification Yemen suffers from an intense oil curse. The curse is evidenced by low … remittances from Saudi Arabia in the 1970s and 1980s. Moreover, the current instability in Yemen has its origins in rent …

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when … minerals are aggregated, mining increases district inequality. But an analysis of individual minerals shows that mining affects …