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Do giant oilfield discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745904
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Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367444
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Giant oilfields and civil conflict
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549058
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Can more be less? An experimental test of the resource curse
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; McCabe, Kevin; Twieg, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Several scholars have argued that abundant natural resources can be harmful to economic performance under bad institutions and helpful when institutions are good. These arguments have either been theoretical or based on naturally-occurring variation in natural resource wealth. We test this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108283
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The extractive industry's impact on economic growth in SADC countries
Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266066
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The Resource Curse and Rentier States in the Caspian Region: A Need for Context Analysis
Meissner, Hannes - 2010
Although much attention is paid to the Caspian region with regard to energy issues, the domestic consequences of the region's resource production have so far constituted a neglected field of research. A systematic survey of the latest research trends in the economic and political causalities of...
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Oil Wealth and Property Rights
de Soysa, Indra; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020
We empirically examine the impact of oil wealth on property rights protection for a sample of 156 countries between … 1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to … different instrumental-variable approaches and operationalizations of oil wealth and economic institutions. We argue that oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227659
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The stuff of legend: diamonds and development in southern Africa
Noland, Marcus; Spector, Brooks - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This essay establishes four propositions. First, the diamond industry has been a positive force for development in southern Africa. Second, jewelry, among the most profitable segments of the industry, is a non-essential luxury, and accordingly, consumer concerns over conflict diamonds pose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025715
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Oil wealth and property rights
De Soysa, Indra; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020
We empirically examine the impact of oil wealth on property rights protection for a sample of 156 countries between … 1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to … different instrumental-variable approaches and operationalizations of oil wealth and economic institutions. We argue that oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219700
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Natural resources, rent seeking and economic development : an analysis of the resource curse hypothesis for Iran
Dell' Anno, Roberto; Maddah, Majid - In: Macroeconomics and finance in emerging market economies 15 (2022) 1, pp. 47-65
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