This paper surveys the natural resource curse. We review the mechanisms through which
resource wealth might slow economic growth, and the empirical studies that test for an effect …

Rising inequalities and accelerating global environmental change pose two of the most
pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. To explore how these phenomena are linked …

The current decade has witnessed the rise of empirical research in the domain of ecological
footprint which has become a major scholarly area among environmental researchers …

This study analyzes the influence of financial technologies, digitalization, institutional quality,
and human capital on natural resources rent during 2002–2020 in selected OECD …

The aim of this work is to analyse the conditional effects of natural resource dependence on
human capital and the quality of institutions on economic growth. Unlike most previous work …

For most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,“industrialized” and “rich” were
synonymous. Hence it is no surprise that development economists have long theorized …

Do natural resources benefit producer economies, or is there a “Natural Resource Curse”,
perhaps as the crowd-out of manufacturing productivity spillovers reduces long-term …

To date, much of the social science literature dealing with the extractive industries has been
dominated by debates over the so-called resource curse. According to its proponents …

A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between natural resources and
democracy. Extant cross-country regressions, however, assume random effects and are run …

The relationship between natural resource rents and economic growth has witnessed a
lively debate since last decades. It has been shown that many countries rich in natural …