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An Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse.
The paper provides an alternative explanation for the ""resource curse"" based on the income effect resulting from high government current spending in resource rich economies. Using a simple life cycle framework, we show that private investment in the non-resource sector is adver...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
International Monetary Fund,
2009.
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| Colección: | IMF Working Papers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Introduction; Tables; 1. Composition of Government Expenditures in Oil Exporting; II. A Simple Model; A. Closed Economy; Figures; 1. Non-Hydrocarbon GDP Growth and Government Current Spending; 2. Transition Paths; B. Openness and Resource Curse; C. Altruism and Resource Curse; III. Empirical Investigation; A. Empirical Methodology; 3. Resource Curse Channels; B. Results; 2. Growth Regressions; IV. Conclusion; 3. Growth Regressions using Restrictions on Trade and Capital Flows; References; Appendices; A. Data; Appendix Tables; 4. Data Description; 5. Descriptive Statistics.
- 6. List of Countries Included in the SampleB. Testing for Whether a Higher Degree of Altruism Dampens the Adverse Effect of Government Current Spending on Non-Hydrocarbon GDP Growth; 7. Growth Regressions using Regional Dummies; C. Regional integration of two large open economies.