Harnessing Resource Rents For Debt Reduction: A Study Of Oil-Rich Sub-Saharan African Countries
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Oil resource rent; economic complexity; public debt burden;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
- Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
- Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
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