Resource Wealth, Democracy and Mobilisation

Arce, Moisés; Miller, Rebecca E.; Patane, Christopher F.; Polizzi, Marc S.

doi:10.1080/00220388.2017.1311408

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“…The rentier economics literature, also relevant here, states that the resource (oil) endowed countries provide generous public services (Mazaheri, 2017) and social capital such as health care, amongst others, to buy off people's consents (Beblawi and Luciani, 1987). For example, Arce et al (2018) revealed that oil wealth demobilized civil society while mineral wealth encouraged protests.…”

Section: Natural Resources and Under-five Mortalitymentioning

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Natural resource effect on child health outcomes in a multifactor health production model in developing countries

Gani

2022

IJSE

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PurposeThis study investigates if wealth from natural resources impacts child health in developing countries.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology includes testing the effect of rents from natural resources on under-five mortality rates using a multifactor health production model for 57 developing nations. The panel estimation procedure was applied to data covering 2002 to 2017, disaggregated by non-renewable and renewable resources and low and medium human development countries.FindingsThe results provide strong evidence that wealth from total natural resources has not been associated with reductions in under-five mortality rates. However, disaggregation of the sample countries by natural resource constituents revealed that only the wealth of non-renewable is strongly inversely associated with under-five mortality rates. Further disaggregation of countries by the low and medium human development constituents revealed a statistically insignificant negative correlation of non-renewable resources wealth and under-five mortality in the low human development countries. In contrast, the results of the medium human development countries revealed that wealth from natural resources (both non-renewable and renewable) had not been associated with any reductions in under-five mortality rates. The results also confirm that immunization levels, nutrition, private spending on health care, air quality, urban living and countries closer to the equator are other strong correlates of under-five mortality rates in low human development countries.Social implicationsThe findings here have implications for the timely achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (to reduce under-five deaths to around 25 per 1,000 live births by 2030). Governments ought to ensure that incomes from the extractive sector are aligned in forms that promote and feed into improving child health wellbeing.Originality/valueThis research creates a shift from aggregate health wellbeing research agenda to investigate how specific aspects of human development can be linked to wealth from non-renewable and renewable natural resources in developing nations. It adds new knowledge and provides health and natural resources policymakers opportunities to combine their policies and synergize efforts to improve child health outcomes.

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Section: Natural Resources and Under-five Mortalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural resource effect on child health outcomes in a multifactor health production model in developing countries

Gani

2022

IJSE

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“…The [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Taken as a group, these researchers have pushed the quantitative study of the resource curse to the subnational and local levels, and have done so by successfully integrating diverse sources of data including company characteristics; land-use patterns; surveys conducted by third parties; government statistics (censuses, financial transfers); coding of government reports such as environmental impact assessment documents; characteristics of the party system; and protest data available from the media, NGOs, academic projects, and, in the case of Peru, the National Ombudsman's Office.…”

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“…In Peru, researchers have tended to rely on conflict accounts provided by the National Ombudsman's Office [15,[27][28][29]. Others have relied on activist sites that aggregate information about resource conflicts [14,20,23]. A notable exception is Arce, who used media reports to build his PEA database [19].…”

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Bigger Data and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Haslam

2020

Sustainability

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New data sources that I characterize as “bigger data” can offer insight into the causes and consequences of socio-environmental conflicts, especially in the mining and extractive sectors, improving the accuracy and generalizability of findings. This article considers several contemporary methods for generating, compiling, and structuring data including geographic information system (GIS) data, and protest event analysis (PEA). Methodologies based on the use of bigger data and quantitative methods can complement, challenge, and even substitute for findings from the qualitative literature. A review of the literature shows that a particularly promising approach is to combine multiple sources of data to analyze complex problems. Moreover, such approaches permit the researcher to conduct methodologically rigorous desk-based research that is suited to areas with difficult field conditions or restricted access, and is especially relevant in a pandemic and post-pandemic context in which the ability to conduct field research is constrained.

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“…Much of the existing literature examines the variation of resource conflicts cross-nationally (Arce & Miller, 2016;Arce et al, 2018;Haslam & Tanimoune, 2015) and sub-nationally (Arce & Hendricks, 2019;Arellano-Yanguas, 2010;Mähler & Pierskalla, 2015;Ponce & McClintock, 2014;Orihuela et al, 2019). Some studies examine the relationship between mineral wealth and conflicts (Arce & Hendricks, 2019;Arellano-Yanguas, 2010).…”

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Willingness to protest over resource extraction in Latin America

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Polizzi

Reeder

2020

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Protests over resource extraction have increased in Latin America in recent years. However, significant variation exists in the region in terms of citizen's willingness to protest against resource extraction. We argue that this variation is based on the interaction of factors at both the individual and state levels. Individual-level characteristics, such as social engagement, influence the likelihood of protest activity. State-level characteristics, such as the quality of governance, also present opportunities for engaged individuals to challenge resource extraction. Following political mediation theory, we argue that collective action strategies are likely to be more productive in some political contexts than in others. Thus socially engaged citizens in highquality governance environments are more willing to participate in protests over resource extraction visa -vis their counterparts in low-quality governance settings. We utilize survey data and state-level governance data across Latin America to determine why some individuals are willing to demonstrate against resource extraction while others are not.

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Resource Wealth, Democracy and Mobilisation

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

Natural resource effect on child health outcomes in a multifactor health production model in developing countries

Natural resource effect on child health outcomes in a multifactor health production model in developing countries

Bigger Data and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Willingness to protest over resource extraction in Latin America

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