Developing economies have found it hard to use natural resource wealth to improve their
economic performance. Utilizing resource endowments is a multistage economic and …

There is mounting evidence that fossil fuel subsidies are detrimental to economic,
environmental, and social sustainability, as they tend to drain national budgets, encourage …

Increasingly common methods for financing public infrastructure in developing economies
are Resources-for-Infrastructure (R4I) and Resource-Financed Infrastructure (RFI), usually …

Developing countries often face difficulties accessing large-scale financing to meet their
development needs. Major constraints are the lack of sufficiently deep domestic markets and …

Abstract Resource-for-infrastructure (RFI) deals generate upfront infrastructure investments
that are to be repaid via future resource extraction revenues. However, much can change in …

There is a gap between the elusive concept of Beijing Consensus and China's effective
practices to promote economic growth at home and in other countries. This article aims to …

Africa has a severe shortage of infrastructure. Addressing this shortage involves both
correcting the problems of poor maintenance and underinvestment that have caused it and …

The world economy needs a growth-lifting strategy, and infrastructure financing seems to
hold the key. Based on the New Structural Economics (Lin, 2010; 2012) we discuss the …

We explore why resource-financed infrastructure—whereby developing countries pledge
future resource revenues to repay infrastructure loans—mitigates credit rationing in poorly …

It is widely agreed that recent decades have witnessed a power shift towards the emerging
economies. Yet the magnitude of the power shift and its implications for the global economic …