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RESOURCES POLICY
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages 123-134Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2016.10.015
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Natural resource curse; Natural resource dependence; Natural resource abundance; Economic growth; Literature survey
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This paper surveys the natural resource curse. We review the mechanisms through which resource wealth might slow economic growth, and the empirical studies that test for an effect overall, or on factors associated with growth. We include more recent studies suggesting the resource curse reflects only empirical misspecification. After reflecting on this conflicting evidence, and the findings of other recent surveys, we argue the evidence that resource dependence negatively affects growth remains convincing, particularly working through factors closely associated with growth in developing countries. Recent contrarian studies demonstrate that future research should better address endogeneity of dependence measures, and expand the years of study and range of empirical methodologies used.
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