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Resource Abundance, Poverty and Development

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Erwin Bulte (Tilburg University)
Richard Damania (University of Adelaide)
Robert Deacon (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Abstract

We examine the relationship between resource abundance and several indicators of human welfare. Consistent with the existing literature on the relationship between resource abundance and economic growth, we find that resource-abundant countries tend to suffer low levels of human development. While we find no support for a direct link between resources and welfare, there is an indirect link that operates through institutional quality. There are also significant differences in the effects that resources have on different measures of institutional quality. These results imply that the "resource curse" is a more encompassing phenomenon than previously considered, and that key differences exist between the effects of different resource types on various aspects of governance and human welfare.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara in its series University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series with number 21-04.

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Keywords: resource curse; human development; resource wealth and scarcity;

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  1. Jean-Philippe Stijns, 2001. "Natural Resource Abundance And Economic Growth Revisited," Development and Comp Systems 0103001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Baland, Jean-Marie & Francois, Patrick, 2000. "Rent-seeking and resource booms," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(2), pages 527-542, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Collier, Paul & Hoeffler, Anke, 1998. "On Economic Causes of Civil War," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 50(4), pages 563-73, October.
  4. Jonathan Isham & Michael Woolcock & Lant Pritchett & Gwen Busby, 2003. "The Varieties of Resource Experience: How Natural Resource Export Structures Affect the Political Economy of Economic Growth," Middlebury College Working Paper Series 0308, Middlebury College, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Xavier Sala-i-Martin & Arvind Subramanian, 2003. "Addressing the natural resource curse: An illustration from Nigeria," Discussion Papers 0203-15, Columbia University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Robert Deacon & Bernardo Mueller, 2004. "Political Economy and Natural Resource Use," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 01-04, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
  2. repec:bep:eaptop:v:8:y:2008:i:1:p:1706-1706 is not listed on IDEAS
  3. Jørgen Juel Andersen & Silje Aslaksen, 2006. "Constitutions and the resource curse," Working Paper Series 7506, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Bulte, Erwin & Wick, Katharina, 2005. "Contesting Resources - Rent Seeking, Conflict and the Natural Resource Curse," Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Kiel 2005 36, Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Hasan, Lubna, 2006. "Myths and Realities of Long-run Development: A Look at Deeper Determinants," MPRA Paper 7786, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2006. [Downloadable!]
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