Power: The Curse Haunting Developing Nations

Consumption in Developing Nations

Pleistocene Extinctions: Haunting the Survivors

For many years, the megafaunal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene have been assumed to have affected only those species that became extinct. However, recent analyses show that the surviving species may also have experienced losses in terms of genetic and ecological diversity.

The curse of wealth and power

We study a model in which being more powerful does not necessarily imply being wealthier. r 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: C7; S477; B201

Income Inequality and the Oil Curse: The Case of Oil-Rich Developing Countries

While most literature on natural resource curse highlight its effect on the growth rate and the level of income, this paper shifts the focus toward the effect of oil dependence on the distribution of income in oil-rich developing countries (includiong Iran and 18 other countries). Moreover, the paper studies the impact of institutional quality and the interaction effect of different institution...

The Scientific Impact of Developing Nations

This paper analyzes science productivity for nine developing countries. Results show that these nations are reducing their science gap, with R&D investments and scientific impact growing at more than double the rate of the developed world. But this "catching up" hides a very uneven picture among these nations, especially on what they are able to generate in terms of impact and output relative t...