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Is it true that good institution alleviate the resource curse? A re-assessment of existing OLS cross country evidence

Botswana Journal of Economics

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Title Is it true that good institution alleviate the resource curse? A re-assessment of existing OLS cross country evidence
 
Creator Bakwena, M
 
Subject World economic growth, resource curse, institutions
 
Description The paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of resources on growth is conditional on the quality of institutions, by further building on Mehlum, Moene, and Torvik’s (2006b) influential work. Advances are made by re-testing the hypothesis, using: (a) a dataset of up to 53 countries over the period 1984-2003; and (b) a resource abundance indicator that focuses on non-renewable resources alone rather than the ones commonly used in the literature that include renewable resources, which are inappropriate. The empirical results of the paper confirm the hypothesis that resource rich economies are not destined to be cursed if they have good institutions.Keywords: World economic growth, resource curse, institutions
 
Publisher The Botswana Economics Association
 
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Date 2013-02-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/boje/article/view/85406
 
Source Botswana Journal of Economics; Vol 10, No 14 (2012); 2-26
1810-0163
1810-0163
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/boje/article/view/85406/75331
 
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