The study investigated the impact of non-oil revenue on economic growth Nigeria for period 1981 to 2019. Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) technique was adopted alongside unit root test, which showed that in all cases, variables level form were non-stationary but their first differences found be stationary. This shows (including growth) are co-integrated at order 1. short run diagnostic te...

The issue of social development has attracted global attention especially in countries that have huge resources without commensurate reflection on welfare. Some developed levy heavy taxes their citizens' income but provide adequate facilities to drive the economy. African oil-producing ones, long relied crude oil revenue recently realize need improve tax collection. In view fact constitutes lar...

We analyze the impact of oil and gas booms on local environmental quality in school districts Texas between 2010 2014. Using data from Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) County Business Patterns, we distinguish economic activity associated with potential actual polluters. find that presence resources a district has spillover effects terms by attracting more potentially polluting firms. Oil abundance...

This study divides the sales cycle of fresh agricultural products into two stages according to the features of fresh agricultural products, establishes two pricing strategies according to its sales and through constructing an centralized-control model of supply chain under the constraints of revenue sharing contract and through analyzing different prices in the two stages, it summarizes the sal...

In this paper, we consider the coordination issue on a supply chain when the firm on this chain tries to produce new products. By considering the risk of new products, three contracts, constant wholesale price contract, revenue sharing contract and linear quantity discount policy, are investigated.

This paper discusses the policy issues facing the country of Sno TomJ e PrRncipe, a small island country in the Gulf of Guinea, given the discovery and imminent exploitation of large reserves of oil in its territorial waters. While presenting huge opportunities, the history of other African oil-exporting countries demonstrates that there are dangers as well. An appropriate policy for macro bala...

Might foreign aid and oil revenues have similar effects on political regimes? Drawing upon formal modeling, cross-national statistical analysis, and in-depth case studies, my dissertation explores the relationship between patterns of government revenue generation and political regime stability. Existing research has devoted surprisingly limited attention to variations in the sources of governme...