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Drawing on Global Witness’ experience in Angola, Cambodia, DRC, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan, this report aims to promote understanding of, and a strategy for dealing with, the problem of natural resource wealth incentivising, financing, and preventing resolution of conflicts. [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml showflipbtn=true documentid=110509114006-fb0285e0e3584aff8a9b6ca94fbf16a7 docname=global_witness_lessons_unlearned username=FutureChallenges loadinginfotext=Lessons%20UNlearned showhtmllink=true tag=angola width=420 […]

Some scholars suggest that the Middle East’s oil wealth helps explain its failure to democratize. This article examines three aspects of this “oil impedes democracy” claim. First, is it true? Does oil have a consistently antidemocratic effect on states, once other factors are accounted for? Second, can this claim be […]

The seemingly paradoxical outcome of resource-rich countries being development-poor is, in fact, quite predictable given that autocratic governments often rule  resource-rich states. Addressing the resource curse requires changing the incentives facing political leaders so that they are rewarded for transparency and confront robust international legal penalties when they do not. […]

One of the surprising features of modern economic growth is that economies abundant in natural resources have tended to grow slower than economies without substantial natural resources. In this paper we show that economies with a high ratio of natural resource exports to GDP in 1970 (the base year) tended […]

Can a country have plenty of natural resources and yet fail to grow and develop? The resource curse paradox is more than a “worstcase scenario.” There is robust empirical evidence for a negative relationship between natural resource wealth and economic growth. [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml showflipbtn=true documentid=110509095345-14013963d43e452c9c0528f85a245299 docname=world_bank_from_curse_to_blessing username=FutureChallenges loadinginfotext=From%20Curse%20to%20Blessing.%20Natural%20Resources%20and%20Institutional%20Quality showhtmllink=true tag=botswana […]