Ressources naturelles, développement et conflits: liens de causalité et mesures politiques.

Journal article

Many governments of developing countries receive large revenues derived from taxation of natural resource rents. The developmental consequences of these revenues have often been negative and are clearly far below their potential. This paper focuses on how developed country governments could assist recipient governments to make better use of their own resources. It first considers six routes by which natural resource rents create problems: rent-seeking, encouraging secession, financing rebellion, the detachment of government, Dutch disease, and exposure to shocks. It then proposes four remedies which address these problems--revenue transparency, the scrutiny of expenditures, the tracking of commodity flows, and the provision of cushions for shocks.

Authors: Collier, P

• Publisher: De Boeck Université
• Journal: Revue d'Economie du Developpement
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 197 - 215
• Publication date: 2004-01-01
• ISSN: 1245-4060
• Language: French