The pungent smell of "red herrings": subsoil assets, rents, volatility and the resource curse

Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2008) provide cross-country evidence that the resource curse is a "red herring" once one corrects for endogeneity of resource exports and allows resource abundance affect growth. Their results show that resource exports are no longer significant while the value of...

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Main Authors: Van der Ploeg, R, Poelhekke, S
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2010