Resource Abundance and Economic Development (W I D E R Studies in Development Economics)

Contents......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
List of Figures......Page 15
List of Contributors......Page 16
Part I. Introduction......Page 18
1. Introduction and Overview......Page 20
Part II. Critical Parameters in Resource-Based Development Models......Page 34
2. Natural Resources, Capital Accumulation, Structural Change, and Welfare......Page 36
3. The Sustainability of Extractive Economies......Page 53
4. Natural Resources, Human Capital, and Growth......Page 74
5. The Social Foundations of Poor Economic Growth in Resource-Rich Countries......Page 93
Part III. Long-Term Perspective on, and Models of, Resource-Based Growth......Page 110
6. Natural Resources and Economic Development: The 1870–1914 Experience......Page 112
7. Short-Run Models of Contrasting Natural Resource Endowments......Page 130
8. Political Economy of Resource-Abundant States......Page 143
Part IV. Development Trajectories of Resource-Abundant Countries......Page 162
9. Competitive Industrialization with Natural Resource Abundance: Malaysia......Page 164
10. A Growth Collapse with Diffuse Resources: Ghana......Page 182
11. A Growth Collapse with Point Resources: Bolivia......Page 196
12. A Growth Collapse with High Rent Point Resources: Saudi Arabia......Page 210
13. Large Resource-Abundant Countries Squander their Size Advantage: Mexico and Argentina......Page 225
Part V. Lessons for Policy Reform......Page 240
14. Reforming a Small Resource-Rich Developing Market Economy: Costa Rica......Page 242
15. Growth, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Reform in South Africa......Page 256
16. Reforming Resource-Abundant Transition Economies: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan......Page 277
17. Reforming a Large Resource-Abundant Transition Economy: Russia......Page 294
18. A Nordic Perspective on Natural Resource Abundance......Page 313
Part VI. Conclusions......Page 330
19. Conclusions: Resource Abundance, Growth Collapses, and Policy......Page 332
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W......Page 356
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