Resource Curse or Not: A Question of Appropriability*

Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2007.00509.x

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“…The presence of large oil or mineral reserves is one of the major causes of corruption and misallocation of rents from resource exploitation. Therefore, natural resource abundance is negative for economic development especially if the country lacks proper institutions for dealing with conflicts and corruption (Boschini et al, 2003). This result reaffirms the important role played by the corruption of institutions induced by resource abundance (Leite and Weidmann, 1999).…”

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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth

Costantini¹,

Monni²

2006

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth SummaryOver the last few years, environmental issues have entered into policy design, particularly development and growth policies. Natural resources are considered necessary production inputs and environmental quality is considered a welfare determinant. The integration of environmental issues into economic growth and development theories and empirics is currently widely analyzed in the literature. The effects of natural resources endowment on economic growth are mainly analyzed through the so-called Resource Curse Hypothesis (RCH) whereas the effects of economic growth on environmental quality are part of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Furthermore, recent contributions on RCH and EKC have shown the important role of institutions and human development dimensions in building a sustainable development path. In this paper, we attempt to analyze the causal relationships between economic growth, human development and sustainability combining the RCH and EKC models and adopting a human development perspective.

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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth

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2006

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“…In line with Gylfason et al (1999), Sala-i-Martin and Subramanian (2003), and Boschini et al (2007), we also test our results by controlling for regional fixed effects. Mehlum et al (2006) for example state that a potential concern is that "the resource curse mechanism might be purely an African phenomenon".…”

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Extending the concept of the resource curse: Natural resources and public spending on health

Cockx

Francken

2014

Ecological Economics

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This paper extends the concept of the resource curse by studying whether and through which transmission channels natural resource wealth affects social spending. Even though the availability of vast natural capital reserves has commonly been linked to the neglect of human development, most of the literature has continued to focus on economic performance. This paper is the first to empirically investigate the link between natural resource wealth and public health expenditures in light of the hypothesis that resource wealth as a source of unearned state income enhances state autonomy and increases volatility, which leads to policies that fail to prioritize human development. Using a large panel dataset of world countries covering the period from 1995 to 2009, we find a robust, significant inverse relationship between natural resource dependence, and even abundance, and public health spending over time. The effect remains significant after controlling for state autonomy, volatility, and other factors.These findings have implications for national authorities as well as the extractive industry. Governments should be made accountable for natural resource wealth and correct taxation could provide additional resources, earmarked for health. The extractive industry could increase their investments in sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility operations, specifically in the health sector.

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“…In particular, resources which are easy to extract, very valuable, can be stored, are easily transported, and are easily sold, are characterized as technically appropriable (Boschini et al 2007). population. In particular, resources that are less technically appropriable, such o¤shore oil and most forms of subsoil oil reservoirs, require a high level of technology and large investments which can only be …nanced by large companies or governments.…”

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Oil and political survival

Andersen

Aslaksen

2013

Journal of Development Economics

112

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Political economy theories on the "natural resource curse" predict that natural resource wealth is a determining factor for the length of time political leaderships remain in o¢ ce.Whether resource wealth leads to longer or shorter durations in political o¢ ce depends on the political incentives created by the natural resources, which in turn depend on the types of institutions and natural resource. Exploiting a sample of more than 600 political leadership durations in up to 152 countries, we …nd that both institutions and resource types matter for the e¤ect that natural resource wealth has on political survival: (i) wealth derived from natural resources a¤ects political survival in intermediate and autocratic, but not in democratic, polities; and (ii) while oil and non-lootable diamonds are associated with positive e¤ects on the duration in political o¢ ce, minerals are associated with negative duration e¤ects.

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Resource Curse or Not: A Question of Appropriability*

Cited by 491 publications

References 49 publications

Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth

Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth

Extending the concept of the resource curse: Natural resources and public spending on health

Oil and political survival

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