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A new model is proposed in this paper by concentrating on the Dutch disease phenomenon along with rent seeking to demonstrate how a natural resource abundance (or a resource boom) affects resource movement and national income under rent seeking collusion in the energy sector. Dutch disease and...
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What does global trade mean for the environment of any particular place? It can produce place-based transformations that are both positive and negative. The Kuznets curve is often touted as a solution that resolves the conflict between trade promotion and environmental protection by purporting...
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An important question in development studies is how abundance of natural resources affects long-term economic growth. No consensus answer, however, has yet emerged, with approximately 40% of empirical papers finding a negative effect, 40% finding no effect, and 20% finding a positive effect....
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additive models with spatial effects were used. Both hypotheses found empirical confirmation. It was shown that in Russia …
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to increase interest in discovery as well as competition among mining companies. More information is needed on the payoff …
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The purpose of this chapter is to identify the reasons for collective action failures and successes in natural resource management, and to understand, in the light of economic theory, the mode of operation of the factors involved whenever possible. In the first section, we clarify the notion of...
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I develop a model to assess distributive rules observed in field data on 48 Mexican farmer-managed irrigation systems. Households decide whether to contribute maintenance effort, the aggregate amount of which affects the level of output. Distributive rules with congruence between the sharing of...
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Little is known about the mining sector’s potential to structurally transform and diversify Australia’s broader economy …) scenarios to examine the Australian mining sector’s inter-sectoral linkages. We find that, first, mining’s backward linkages are … the construction sector offer the pathways through which the mining sector appears to generate potentially transformative …
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living instruments. However, an examination of large-scale mining in Latin America and legal evidence drawn from around the … elsewhere in international law. Emphasis on the long-term implications of large-scale mining underscores that this oversight is …
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