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Some natural resources-oil and minerals in particular-exert a negative and nonlinear impact on growth via their deleterious impact on institutional quality. We

The political economy of natural resource wealth poses two interrelated challenges for American foreign policy, both involving governance issues in countries th

The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we hav

Oil to Cash explores one option to help countries with new oil revenue avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly to citizens. A universal

Research carried out by the World Bank on the root causes of conflict and civil war finds that a developing country's economic dependence on natural resources o