Democracy, Natural Resources, and Infectious Diseases: the Case of Malaria, 1990–2016

Natural resources, child mortality and governance quality in African countries

“…The way natural resources are measured, as well as their "appropriability" explains part of the heterogeneity of the results found in the literature. In recent decades, studies have extended the effect of natural resources to other aspects of economic development such as health outcomes (De Soysa and Gizelis, 2013;El Anshasy and Katsaiti, 2015;Edwards, 2016;Kim and Lim, 2017;Chang and Wei, 2019;Madreimov and Li, 2019;Chang, 2020). However, few studies have focused on the effect of natural resources on child mortality, particularly in Africa.…”

The Interactive Influence of Institutional Quality and Resource Dependence on Regional Economic Growth: Evidence from China’s Resource-Based Provinces

“…Suppose that a country's economic industry is focused on a few resource fields, such as oil and minerals. In this case, point-source economies are more prone to nonproductive activities, such as rent-seeking, and a resource curse (RC) is more likely to occur [13,14]; (2) Impact on Political and Economic Stability: RD is prone to rent-seeking and corrupt behaviors, which thus affect the long-term driving factors of economic development, and escalate the unstable factors of the country's political economy, which will hinder the stability of the country's economy, which results in an RC [15,16]; (3) Impact on Regional Sustainable Development: The excessive reliance on natural resources will inevitably damage the ecological environment as the development and utilization of resources increases. Former resource-based cities, such as Pittsburgh in the United States and the Ruhr Industrial Zone in Germany, encounter ecological and environmental problems; Pittsburgh's transformation was successful, but the Ruhr Industrial Zone was in trouble.…”

“…Good IQ is considered a critical factor that can alleviate the effect of the RC. Restricting TI, reducing the IQ, and falling into the trap of resource advantage, a good institutional environment is generally considered to be a critical factor in improving the resourceutilization efficiency and alleviating the RC [15,32]. However, the improvement in the IQ and the technological-input level can effectively improve the negative impact of RD on economic growth [16,21,33].…”