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The Resource Curse

The Resource Curse

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Publisher Agenda Publishing
Year 30/09/2018
Pages 168
Version paperback
Readership level College/higher education
Language English
ISBN 9781911116493
Categories Economic growth
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The resource curse, or paradox of plenty, refers to the long-established notion central in development economics that countries rich in natural resources, particularly minerals and fuels, perform less well economically than countries with fewer natural resources. In other words, resources are an economic curse rather than a blessing.


This short primer explores the complexities of this idea and the debates that surround it, in particular under what conditions the resource curse might operate, if not universal. Discussion ranges over the nature of resource booms, the benefits and costs of export-led growth, the problems of deindustrialization and manufacturing base erosion, rent-seeking behaviour and corruption and the empirical evidence of the effects of natural resource dependence on growth. The book also considers the links between resource rents and the risk of conflict and civil war.


The treatment draws throughout on a range of illustrative examples from across the developed and developing world and offers an authoritative introduction to one of the most perplexing issues for economic growth. Mansoob Murshed's book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive, yet concise, critical review of research into the resource curse. It meticulously explains the often conflicting findings produced by the surge in statistical analysis since the 1990s and argues for embracing additional more flexible approaches such as comparative case studies. -- Richard Auty, Lancaster University

The Resource Curse

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. The Dutch disease and deindustrialization

3. Growth and the institutional resource curse

4. Empirical evidence on the resource curse

5. Resource rents and violent internal conflict

6. Managing resource rents

7. Concluding comments

Appendix 1: Growth collapse from rent seeking

Apprendix 2: A model of civil war with greed and grievances

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