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Poor institutions, rich mines : resource curse and the origins of the Sicilian mafia

Buonanno, Paolo; Durante, Ruben; Prarolo, Giovanni; … - 2012 - This version: August, 2012

This study explains the emergence of the Sicilian mafia in the XIX century as the product of the interaction between natural resource abundance and weak institutions. We advance the hypothesis that the mafia emerged after the collapse of the Bourbon Kingdom in a context characterized by a severe...

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Natural resources and exports diversification in Cameroon : does corruption matter?

Ngameni, Joseph Pasky; Ngassam, Sylvain Bertelet; … - In: Research in globalization 6 (2023), pp. 1-12

This paper examines the role of corruption in the relationship between natural resources and exports diversifi cation … diversification while forest and mineral resources decrease export diversification. Also, in the short run, executive corruption …, executive corruption instead mitigates the negative effect of natural resources irrespective of their type on export …

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Resource-richness and economic growth in contemporary U.S.

Jaimes, Richard; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017

Between 1997 and 2014, US corn, soybean and cotton production almost fully converted to genetically modified crops. Starting around 2007, improved tight oil and shale gas technologies turned the declining US fossil fuel production into a booming industry. We study the effects of these two...

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Diversifying and benchmarking Madagascar

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2024

Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of production possibilities to illuminate the possible...

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The Rentier Predatory State Hypothesis : An Empirical Explanation of the Resource Curse

Alkhater, Khalid R. - 2011

This paper introduces an empirical growth model that explains the observed perplexing growth-resource regime, dubbed the resource curse. The main hypothesis introduced here, the rentier predatory state hypothesis, holds that under autocracy, the interaction between political power and resource...

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The Rentier Predatory State : An Empirical Investigation of the 'Resource Curse'

Alkhater, Khalid R. - 2009

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An Analysis of the Relevance of the Resource Curse to Australia, and Policy Implications

Bucifal, Stanislav; George, Terry; Ahmed, Nur - 2009

This paper and associated presentation explores the economic phenomenon of the so called ‘resource curse’. We begin by defining the phrase and outlining the main individual ‘curses’ and their causes to give the reader a broad understanding of what is meant by the phrase. This is followed...

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Commodity Prices, Growth, and the Natural Resource Curse : Reconciling a Conundrum

Collier, Paul; Goderis, Benedikt - 2009

Currently, evidence on the ‘resource curse’ yields a conundrum. While there is much cross-section evidence to support the curse hypothesis, time series analyses using vector autoregressive (VAR) models have found that commodity booms raise the growth of commodity exporters. This paper adopts...

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The Natural Resource Curse and Economic Transition

Alexeev, Michael V.; Conrad, Robert F. - 2009

Using cross-country regressions, we examine the relationship between “point-source” resource abundance and economic growth, quality of institutions, investment in human and physical capital, and social welfare (life expectancy and infant mortality). Contrary to most literature, we find...

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The Environmental Resource Curse Hypothesis : The Forest Case

Delacote, Philippe; Damette, Olivier - 2009

The resource curse hypothesis relies on the resource-rich countries tendency to grow slower than resource-poor countries. Focusing on forest issues, this paper extends the resource curse hypothesis to environmental degradation: how do forest endowment and forest harvesting affect deforestation?...

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