The Geographical Dimension of the Development Effects of Natural Resources

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作者：
Fabrizio Carmignani
Abdur Chowdhury
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[1] The University of Queensland,School of Economics
[2] Marquette University,Department of Economics
来源：
Environmental and Resource Economics | 2012年 / 52卷
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Natural resources; Development; Institutions; Schooling;
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We study the contribution of natural resource intensity to long-term development along different dimensions: per-capita income, institutional quality, and education. We allow natural resources to affect these dimensions differently in different regions of the world. The evidence suggests that natural resources are generally a positive driver of development, but in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) their contribution is almost negligible, if not even negative. We explain these cross-regional differences with the fact that in SSA more than anywhere else large resource endowments are combined with a particularly bad disease environment. Some historical evidence and formal econometric results support this hypothesis.
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页数：19
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