2017
DOI: 10.1108/ijesm-10-2016-0002
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Does bad company corrupt good character? A spatial econometric analysis of oil resource management in Africa

Abstract: A widely held belief before the 1990sreferred to as the oil-blessing hypothesiswas that oil discovery and production should promote economic growth and development, and lead to poverty reduction. However, the so-called 'oil-curse' hypothesis, postulated by Sachs and Warner in 1995, challenged this belief, thus provoking a heated debate on the theme. The oil-curse hypothesis has been traditionally tested by means of cross-sectional and panel-data models. We go beyond these traditional methods to test whether th… Show more

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