Natural resources represent the base of our living and the entire economic activity. Their
depletion is a major challenge for the economic development of both developed and …

We investigate whether mining affects local corruption in Africa. Several cross‐country
analyses report that natural resources have adverse effects on political institutions by …

This present study investigates the relationship between natural resource abundance and
economic growth for Venezuelan economy. We have applied the ARDL bounds testing …

Like the entire Andean region, Ecuador has an economic structure that is dependent on
primary exports. During the last boom in commodity prices the (neo-) extractivist …

Despite growing academic attention to the relationship between economic development and
natural resources in social sciences, the issue has received rather limited attention in the …

The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical
rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent. Total rent can therefore be from one-tenth to two-fifths …

ABSTRACT The Natural Resource Curse literature started with a clear consensus that
dependence on natural resources have clear direct negative effects on economic growth …

Background Children and youth emerge as key populations that are impacted by energy
resource activities, in part because of their developmental vulnerabilities, as well as the …

This article draws on actor network theory (ANT) and assemblage to interrogate the potential
future manifestation of open conflicts due to unresolved latent local socio-economic and …

This paper analyses whether or not democracy insulates a country from the problematic
impacts of oil or to what extent oil-based development challenges are produced and …