Natural Capital and the Resource Curse

An abundance of natural resources is intuitively expected to be a blessing. Nonetheless, it has been argued for some decades that large endowments of natural resources oil, gas, and minerals in particular may actually become more of a curse, often...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Canuto, Otaviano, Cavallari, Matheus
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
GDP
TAX
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/05/16290781/natural-capital-resource-curse
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10042