Harnessing windfall revenues: optimal policies for resource-rich developing economies

A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. Standard policy advice follows the permanent income hypothes...

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Main Author: Van der Ploeg, R
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2011