Rent Seeking Opportunities and Economic Growth in Transitional Economies

What Is The Driving Force Behind Industrial Development In Iran? Rent Seeking And Labor Exploitation As The Driving Force Of Industrial Growth

EPRDF, Developmental State, and Rent Seeking Ethiopia has achieved one of the fastest growing economies in the world for the last consecutive years by adopting East Asian countries model

Ethiopia has achieved one of the fastest growing economies in the world for the last consecutive years by adopting East Asian countries model of development. Based on developmental state paradigm, the ruling party has been able to design a pragmatic developmental strategy which is tailored and adjusted to the country's unique socio economic structure. The experiment has resulted on unprecedente...

Threshord Effect of the Economic Growth Rate on the Development of Renewable Energy: Evidences from OPEC Countries

 This paper studies the non linear relationship between energy prices, natural resources rent opportunities and renewable energy consumption under different economic growth rates for OPEC member countries during the 2005-2016 period.  Using a panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) model, our findings prove a non-linear relationship between renewable energy consumption and the rate of economi...

Mauritania, Kenya and Mozambique Compared

This paper conceptualises foreign aid as a geopolitical form of rent in order to help distinguish the conditions under which aid is detrimental to sustained economic recovery from those where it is beneficial. Foreign aid shares with natural resource rent and contrived (i.e., government monopoly) rent the property of being a large revenue stream that is detached from the economic activity that ...

Institutional Quality, Natural Resource Rent, and Shadow Economy

Natural resource rent affects countries’ economies through various channels. Revenues from the natural resources sales are expected to boost countries' economic growth, but the economic experience of recent decades reveals the numerous economic problems in these countries, the most important of which may be the increase in the shadow economy size. Moreover, the institutions specify the signific...