Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,”
meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's …

This paper presents a critical survey of the literature on the 'resource curse', focusing on
three main questions:(i) are natural resources bad for development?;(ii) what causes the …

This study aims to analyze the effects of natural resources, human capital, financial
development, industrialization, technological progress, and international trade on the …

This paper investigates the stimulating role of natural resource abundance in financial
development for the case of the USA over the period of 1960–2016. We included education …

Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more
frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be …

This article provides evidence from a fragile state that citizens demand more of a voice in the
government when it tries to tax them. I examine a field experiment randomizing property tax …

Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of
socio-economic development in comparison to world averages? Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes …

It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to show
better economic per for mance than those without. This is the phenomenon known as the …

Elections ought in theory to go a long way toward making democracy'work', but in many
contexts, they fail to embody democratic ideals because they are affected by electoral …

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 …