Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend

Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend

This paper considers the proposal that each country distribute its resource rents directly to citizens as a universal and unconditional cash transfer, or Resource Dividend, and estimates its potential impact on global poverty. Using a global dataset on resource rents and the distribution of income, I find that if every developing country implemented the policy then the number of people living b...

Halving Global Poverty

I n September 2000, the world’s leaders met at the Millennium Summit at the United Nations in New York City and set an ambitious agenda for improving human welfare. These goals, which are elaborated at http://www. developmentgoals.org , include achieving universal primary education and gender equity; ensuring environmental sustainability; reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS; and by 2015, reducing ...

On the Merits of the Resource Curse Theory: Resource Rents and Corruption

Resource redistribution in polydomous ant nest networks: local or global?

An important problem facing organisms in a heterogeneous environment is how to redistribute resources to where they are required. This is particularly complex in social insect societies as resources have to be moved both from the environment into the nest and between individuals within the nest. Polydomous ant colonies are split between multiple spatially separated, but socially connected, nest...

A resource-based theory of sustainable rents

This paper summarizes and comments on Conner (1991) that contributes to the strategic management area by providing an historical comparison of resource-based theory and five schools of thought within industrial organization economics. Conner (1991) argues that the fundamental distinction between resource-based theory and transaction costs theory is that resource-based theory focuses on the depl...