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Do natural resources depress income per capita?

Abstract:

Most evidence for the resource curse comes from cross-country growth regressions suffers from a bias originating from the high and ever-evolving volatility in commodity prices. This paper addresses these issues by providing new cross-country empirical evidence for the effect of resources in income per capita. Natural resource dependence (resource exports) has a significant negative effect on income per capita, especially in countries with bad rule of law or bad policies, but these results wea...

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University of Oxford Publisher's website
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OxCarre Papers
Publication date:
2008-02-05
Paper number:
1
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Pubs id:
931121
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pubs:931121
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2020-12-14

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