Many studies find that areas more dependent on natural resources grow more slowly – a relationship known as the resource curse. For counties in the south-central U.S., I find little evidence of an emerging curse from greater natural gas production in the 2000s. Each gas-related mining job created more than one nonmining job, indicating that counties did not become more dependent on mining as me...

Numerous studies have examined the resource curse using different perspectives. This study investigates how occurs in three countries with institutional structures a new model. The DIGNAR-MTFF model introduced and presented this article is combination of DIGNAR FMM-MTFF includes consistent framework for industrial production, inflow intermediate goods, public investment inefficiencies, learning...

I argue that the commonly used nominal measure of natural resource dependence -the share of exports of primary products in GNP -understates in growth regressions the negative link between natural resource dependence and per capita GDP growth. I show that using a purchasing power parity adjusted measure yields an economically much larger negative relationship between per capita GDP growth and na...

This article revisits and empirically tests the conjecture that specialization in natural resource industries (NRI) might not necessarily be a ‘curse’ for developing countries if it generates opportunities export diversification backward-linked sectors à la Hirschman. The systematizes evolution of debate around NRI ‘curse’. Then whether represent sufficient ‘domestic representative demand’ Lind...

A considerable number of developing countries are still trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and stagnation, despite being endowed with significant stocks of natural resources. Research has highlighted how natural resource abundance is often linked to slower growth rates and actually seems to increase the likelihood that resourcedependent countries will experience negative economic, political ...