Natural wealth accounts: A proposal for alleviating the natural resource curse

World Development

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1153-1170

  Sandbu, Martin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

distribution; institutions; natural resource curse; political economy; taxation; transparency

Indexed keywords

NATURAL RESOURCE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 33745865503     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.11.014     Document Type: Article

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