Using natural resources for development: why has it proven so difficult?

Developing economies have found it hard to use natural resource wealth to improve their economic performance. Utilizing resource endowments is a multistage economic and political problem that requires private investment to discover and extract the resource, fiscal regimes to capture revenue, judicio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Venables, A
Format: Journal article
Published: American Economic Association 2016