What Can We Learn about the “Resource Curse” from Foreign Aid?

A large body of literature has arisen in economics and political science analyzing the apparent “resource curse”—the tendency of countries with high levels of natural resources to exhibit worse economic and political outcomes. The author examines the purported causal mechanisms underlying this “curs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morrison, Kevin M.
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2013
Subjects:
oil
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15347