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Extractive revenues and government spending: Short- versus long-term considerations

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  • Frederick van der Ploeg
  • Anthony J. Venables

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The prescription of optimally managing natural resource revenue windfalls by smoothing consumption across generations using an intergenerational sovereign wealth fund that only invests in foreign assets is not appropriate for resource-rich developing economies. It is better for these economies to use their windfalls to boost investment in the domestic economy, especially when they confront capital scarcity and have poor access to international capital markets.

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  • Frederick van der Ploeg & Anthony J. Venables, 2017. "Extractive revenues and government spending: Short- versus long-term considerations," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-45, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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