Essays about: "resource curse"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 49 essays containing the words resource curse.

  1. 21. Do Inaccessible and Lootable Natural Resources Influence the Incidence of Civil Conflicts? Opportunities and Limits in the Study of the Resource Curse in Developing Countries

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Lorenzo Schirato; [2017]
    Keywords : Resource Curse; Geographic Inaccessibility; Lootable Resources; Civil Conflict; Developing Countries;

    Abstract : The literature on the so-called resource curse has provided evidence showing that third-world countries rich in natural resources tend to suffer from low levels of economic growth, poor political outcomes and severe intrastate conflicts. In particular, resource abundance is associated with more frequent and longer civil wars, especially in developing countries. READ MORE

  3. 22. WATER AS A CURSE? A quantitative examination of the link between water resources and interstate conflict

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Julia Prenzel; [2016-09-16]
    Keywords : resource curse; water abundance; interstate conflict; greed; grievances;

    Abstract : The phenomenon of the resource curse links the abundance of natural resources to higher levels of conflict occurrence. Until now, most literature merely focuses on non-renewable resources such as diamonds or gold. READ MORE

  4. 23. Income Inequality and Natural Resources

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Philipp Bergner; [2016]
    Keywords : Inequality; institutional quality; point resources; resource curse; SWIID; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The observation that countries highly endowed with natural resources often struggle with undesirable economic (e.g. low growth) and social problems has produced a large body of literature on the so-called resource curse over the last decades. READ MORE

  5. 24. Commodity Prices and Violence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Marcus Otto Syk; Wessam El Ghoul; [2016]
    Keywords : conflict minerals; Democratic Republic of the Congo; resource curse; conflict intensity; commodity prices; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In this study it is theorized that the world market price of a certain commodity should affect the intensity of the violence in conflict zones in which this commodity is produced. This is tested on the Second Congo War and the continuing violence since, using statistical methods to analyse the effect of the world market price of gold, diamonds, oil, tin, copper, cobalt and coltan. READ MORE

  6. 25. Development of the Chilean mining industry – its dependence of natural resources

    University essay from KTH/Entreprenörskap och Innovation

    Author : Diego Alonso Romero Guastavino; [2016]
    Keywords : Resource Curse; Economic development; Environmental regulation; Technological change; Mining industry;

    Abstract : The resource curse, also known as the “paradox of plenty”, basically states that countries that have natural resources in abundance, particularly in terms of non-renewable resources such as oil and gas and minerals, in the long run tend to have less economic growth and prosperity, than countries with relatively lesser endowments of natural resources. This research investigates the case of the Chilean economy; its erstwhile saltpeter mining industry and current copper mining industry. READ MORE