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- Title
Minerals, Institutions, Openness, and Growth: An Empirical Analysis.
- Authors
Butkiewicz, James L.; Yanikkaya, Halit
- Abstract
Competing explanations of the resource curse are tested using panel data. The data support the existence of a mineral resource curse for developing countries with weak institutions, consistent with the hypothesis that owners of mineral resources use weak institutions and openness to trade to stifle the development of human capital, to the detriment of growth in other sectors of the economy. Manufacturing imports substitute for the development of domestic production, so openness to trade correlates with lower growth in mineral dependent economies. The "Dutch disease" and debt overhang explanations of the resource curse are not supported.
- Subjects
DEVELOPING countries; RESOURCE curse; MINES &; mineral resources; MINERAL resources conservation; MINERAL investment; HUMAN capital; ECONOMIC development
- Publication
Land Economics, 2010, Vol 86, Issue 2, p313
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3368/le.86.2.313