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Natural Resource Wealth: The Challenge of Managing a Windfall

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  • Frederick van der Ploeg
  • Anthony J. Venables

    () (Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UQ, United Kingdom)

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Many countries have failed to use natural resource wealth to promote growth and development. They have been damaged by the volatility of revenues and have failed to save a sufficiently high proportion of their resource revenues and failed to make high-return investments to support diversification of their economies. This review explores the reasons for these failures and discusses policies to improve performance.

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Article provided by Annual Reviews in its journal Annual Review of Economics.

Volume (Year): 4 (2012)
Issue (Month): 1 (07)
Pages: 315-337

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Handle: RePEc:anr:reveco:v:4:y:2012:p:315-337

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Keywords: resource curse; managing windfalls; fiscal rules; volatility; absorptive capacity; Dutch disease; public investment;

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  1. Ton S. van den Bremer & Frederick van der Ploeg, 2012. "How to Spend a Windfall: Dealing with volatility and capital scarcity," OxCarre Working Papers 085, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford.

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