Why do many resource-rich countries have negative genuine saving? Anticipation of better times for rapacious rent seeking

We investigate the Hartwick rule for saving of a nation necessary to sustain a constant level of private consumption for a small open economy with an exhaustible stock of natural resources. The amount by which a country saves and invests less than the marginal resource rents equals the expected capi...

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Glavni avtor: Van der Ploeg, R
Format: Working paper
Izdano: University of Oxford 2008