resource curse, rent-seeking, and income inequality in oil rich countries

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...

Poor little rich countries: another look at the ‘resource curse’

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Imputed Rent and Income Inequality : A Decomposition

Inequality, Control Rights, and Rent Seeking: Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra

This paper presents a theory of rent seeking within farmer cooperatives in which inequality of asset ownership affects relative control rights of different groups of members. The two key assumptions are constraints on lump-sum transfers from poorer members and dispro-This paper could not have been completed without the support and encouragement that we received from Shivajirao Patil and Jamshee...

Rent-seeking and institutional stability in developing countries*

Although developing countries are most often associated with institutional instability, most are fairly stable and may be considered extremely stable if one takes into account the fact that policies adopted by many of these nations are highly inefficient. In a large number of cases, post-independence economic policies adopted by developing countries have resulted in very slow, stagnant or even ...

Energy-Environmental Efficiency and Effective Factors in Oil-Rich Countries

Nowadays, economic growth is one of the most prominent objectives of most economic policies, but an objective which usually results in environmental degradation. Economic growth and development require the use of energy as one of the most important inputs of production, and inaccessibility of affordable and reliable energy sources has frequently led to economic and social retrogression in many ...