Are natural resources a curse or a blessing? The answer may depend on how natural
wealth is managed. By transforming a temporary windfall into a permanent stock in the form …

Venezuela is a textbook example of a resource-dependent country—between 1950 and
2008, oil generated over a trillion dollars of income for the state. Nevertheless, Venezuela …

Through statistics published by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), the
paper explores why oilfield sabotage from 2009 to 2015 remains a problem in the Niger …

One proven strategy for avoiding the resource curse and taking full advantage of natural
resource wealth for governments in low-and middle-income countries is to prioritize …

In attempting to achieve the main objective of the study, annual time series data from 1984 to
2016 are employed. This entails the period of both high and low commodity prices in the …

Ever since its nomenclature in the 1990s, the resource curse has been a particular field of
study for researchers in economics. The paper analyses the experience of Norway and …

A stronger, more informed approach to the energy markets The Energy World Is Flat
provides a forward-looking analysis of the energy markets and addresses the implications of …

Nigeria as one of the oil producing and resource rich nations in sub-Sahara Africa, with her
considerable contribution to the world total oil output still maintained high level of poverty …

This research sheds light on explanatory causes behind the policy decision of an oil rich
states to engage in oil-for-loans agreements with China using Ecuador as a case study …

The resource curse has been a develo** field of study for researchers in economics since
its origination in the 1990s. This paper studies the policy framework of Norway and …