The resource curse literature has necessarily evolved in a rather fragmented way. While
economists, political economists and political scientists have largely focused on the role of …

Corruption is the main reason why resource-rich countries perform badly in economic terms.
Corruption in resource-rich countries takes two main forms, rent-seeking and patronage …

This paper investigates the African financial development and financial inclusion gaps
relative to other peer developing countries. Using a set of variables related to financial …

It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to show
better economic per for mance than those without. This is the phenomenon known as the …

A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between natural resources and
democracy. Extant cross-country regressions, however, assume random effects and are run …

Chinese outward foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased substantially in recent years.
Though this has generated considerable interest in the motivations and drivers of Chinese …

Oil, minerals, and agricultural resources can bring great riches to those who possess them.
Yet countries that are abundantly endowed with such natural resources often encounter …

Empirical results on the links between trade openness and economic growth often suggest
that, in the long run, more outward‐oriented countries register better economic growth …

This study examined the disaggregated effect of natural resource rents on economic growth
in Nigeria during the period 1981–2017. The study applied both traditional and modern unit …

The article discusses the effects of resource wealth on the economic development of
individual countries. It describes modern behavioural strategies used by mining companies …