empirical evidence seems to indicate that economic growth has varied inversely with natural resource abundance across countries, in which high natural resources dependent economies experience the low economic growth. this paper first reviews the literature of resources curse and shows that the most important challenges of economic development of iran are those mechanisms that change the blessin...

the purpose of this article is to present the link among resource based theory, marketing strategy, and firms’ performance in order to propose integrative framework showing how the three constructs are linked. it is organized based on a review of academic literature on resource based theory and marketing strategy chronicled in major marketing journals up to december 2015. besides, the paper ref...

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether oil revenues in the MENA region lead economic growth or resource curse evident. To do so we employ a panel Vector Auto-Regressive (PVAR) model comprising not only and but also government expenditures. latter variable considered as examine revenue leads via fiscal policy channel. We further assess heterogeneous findings exist depending on quality p...

This paper draws on the concept of natural resource curse theory, Dutch disease, to critically review impact Ghana’s oil discovery performance agricultural sector through a desk review. We also combed various directories for articles in academic journals, bulletins, governmental and non-governmental reports magazines any salient data topic. Drawing experiences other countries we argue that dwin...

Once an economy starts to specialize heavily in the extraction and export of natural resources, several negative repercussions in the wider domestic economy tend to arise. Such problems are often described as the “paradox of plenty” or the “resource curse” and they have occurred both in developed and developing countries. This paper summarizes the current debates surrounding the “resource curse...