Are natural resources a curse or a blessing? The answer may depend on how natural
wealth is managed. By transforming a temporary windfall into a permanent stock in the form …

Environmental degradation is recognized as a major threat to sustainable and inclusive
development and therefore requires a rapid and effective political response. Political will to …

We investigate the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the
subnational data of one of the resource-richest and highly unequal countries in the world …

This study contributes to the extensive non‐consensus literature on the resource curse by
examining the effect of natural resource dependence on infrastructure quality. We show that …

We investigate the response of the news‐based corruption reflection index to positive
shocks in oil rents in Iran. Using annual data spanning from 1962 to 2019, we employ the …

Natural resource-rich countries face the challenge of harnessing their resources for
sustainable economic development. Although existing literature extensively studies the …

Can resource windfalls reduce corruption? We find that, in democratic regimes with
unlimited reelection, the answer is in the affirmative, contrasting a widely held view. The …

Resource nationalism has a complex economic, political, and cultural history and reality.
The evolution of the supply and demand structure of the global mineral metal market …

The world economy has a massive range of issues, including political instability, social
unrest, unchecked corruption, unemployment, extreme poverty, etc. Developed countries …

The resource curse hypothesis supposes that rents generated by resource booms create
opportunities for rent-seeking activities, which weaken innovation and economic …