Commodity Prices, Growth, and the Natural Resource Curse: Reconciling a Conundrum.

Currently, evidence on the ‘resource curse’ yields a conundrum. While there is much crosssection evidence to support the curse hypothesis, time series analyses using vector autoregressive (VAR) models have found that commodity booms raise the growth of commodity exporters. This paper adopts panel co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Collier, P, Goderis, B
Format: Working paper
Published: OxCarre 2008