reserves are being depleted. Yemen will come to rely on other sectors of the economy, some of which have potential but remain … alleviation in Yemen and to define the constraints that will need to be overcome if this potential is to be realized. In so doing …

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 …

. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … (planned and unplanned) mining projects in Sierra Leone. A crucial insight is that new mining projects do not necessarily …

physical and market attributes meant its mining and trade continued despite the implementation of trade control measures), low …

We investigate whether mining affects local-level corruption in Africa. Several cross-country analyses report that … 500 industrial mines. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find evidence that mining increases bribe payments …. Mines are initially located in less corrupt areas, but mining areas turn more corrupt after mines open and actively produce …