This paper presents a critical survey of the literature on the 'resource curse', focusing on
three main questions:(i) are natural resources bad for development?;(ii) what causes the …

We survey the growing literature studying the effects of natural resource abundance or
dependence on human capital accumulation, a key factor in development and economic …

Theoretical and empirical studies on oil price shocks have mainly focused on measuring its
relationship with national macroeconomic performance in developing countries …

Questions about the effective use of natural resource revenues have in recent years become
increasingly central to local and international efforts to address the problem of resource …

Taking stock of the state of knowledge on East Timor since the UN intervention of 1999, this
article traces the rise of a hegemonic discourse especially around development issues …

Abstract “Resource curse”,“Dutch disease”,“gold rush”,“blood diamonds”–those are just
some of the epithets used to characterise the role of natural resources in economic …

Natural resources play a significant role in the development of the global economy. This
refers, in particular, to strategic fuel and mineral resources. Due to the limited supply of …

The endowment of natural resources has often on non-boom tradable sectors; inefficient
been associated with disappointing economic investment beyond the absorptive capacity of …

Colombia experienced one of the major economic booms in its history during the first two
decades of the 21st century. This paper characterizes and quantifies them and identifies the …

This book interrogates the common perception that liberal peace is in crisis and explores the
question: can the local turn save liberal peacebuilding? Presenting a case for a liberal …