Resources and incentives to reform

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 250-273

  Dalmazzo, Alberto ^a   de Blasio, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344583458     PISSN: 10207635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Acemoglu, Darron, and James A. Robinson, 1998, "Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality and Growth in Historical Perspective," CEPR Discussion Paper No. 1797 (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research).
2. Acemoglu, Darron, and James A. Robinson, 1999, "Democratization or Repression?" CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2278 (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research).
3. Acemoglu, Darron, and James A. Robinson, 2001, "A Theory of Political Transitions," American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 4 (September), pp. 938-63.
4. Alesina, Alberto, and David Dollar, 2000, "Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?" Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March), pp. 33-64.
5. Alesina, Alberto, and Beatrice Weder, 1999, "Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?" NBER Working Paper No. 7108 (Cambridge, Massachusetts; National Bureau of Economic Research).
6. Auty, Richard M., 1990, Resource-Based Industrialization: Sowing the Oil in Eight Developing Countries (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
7. Baland, Jean-Marie, and Patrick Francois, 2000, "Rent-Seeking and Resource Booms," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 61, No. 2 (April), pp. 527-42.
8. Barro, Robert J., 1999, "Determinants of Democracy," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, No. 6, Part 2 (December), pp. S158-83.
9. Barro, Robert J., and Xavier Sala-I-Martin, 1995, Economic Growth (New York: McGraw-Hill).
10. Block, Steven, 2001, "Does Africa Grow Differently?" Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 65, No. 2 (August), pp. 443-67.
11. Boone, Peter, 1996, "Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid," European Economic Review, Vol. 40, No. 2 (February), pp. 289-329.
12. Bratton, Michael, and Nicholas van der Walle, 1997, Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
13. Burnside, Craig, and David Dollar, 2000, "Aid, Policies, and Growth," American Economic Review, Vol. 90, No. 4 (September), pp. 847-68.
14. Collier, Paul, and Jan Willem Gunning, 1999, "Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?" Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Summer), pp. 3-22.
15. Dalmazzo, Alberto, and Guido de Blasio, 2001, "Resources and Incentives to Reform. A Model and Some Evidence on Sub-Saharan African Countries," IMF Working Paper 01/86 (Washington: International Monetary Fund).
16. Dollar, David, and William Easterly, 1999, "The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment, and Policies in Africa," Journal of African Economies, Vol. 8, No. 4 (December), pp. 546-77.
17. Dollar, David, and Aart Kraay, 2000, "Property Rights, Political Rights, and the Development of Poor Countries in the Post-Colonial Period" (unpublished; Washington: World Bank). Available via the Internet: www.worldbank.org/research/growth.
18. Dollar, David, and Jakob Svensson, 2000, "What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programmes?" Economic Journal, Vol. 110, No. 466 (October), pp. 894-917.
19. Easterly, William, and Ross Levine, 1997, "Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 112 (November), pp. 1203-50.
20. Gelb, Alan H., 1998, Windfall Gains: Blessing or Curse? (New York: Oxford University Press).
21. Grout, Paul, 1984, "Investment and Wages in the Absence of Binding Contracts: A Nash Bargaining Approach," Econometrica, Vol. 52 (March), pp. 449-60.
22. Gylfason, Thorvaldur, 2001, "Natural Resources, Education, and Economic Development," European Economic Review, Vol. 45, No. 4 (May), pp. 847-59.
23. Gylfason, Thorvaldur, Tryggvi T. Herbertsson, and Gylfl Zoega, 1999, "A Mixed Blessing: Natural Resources and Economic Growth," Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 3, No. 2 (June), pp. 204-25.
24. Hall, Robert E., and Charles I. Jones, 1999, "Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output per Worker Than Others?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 114 (February), pp. 83-116.
25. Hart, Oliver, 1995, Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
26. Havrylyshyn, Oleh, and Ron Van Rooden, 2000, "Institutions Matter in Transition, but So Do Policies," IMF Working Paper 00/70 (Washington: International Monetary Fund).
27. Hermalin, Benjamin, 1992, "The Effect of Competition on Executive Behavior," Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 23, pp. 350-65.
28. Kaufmann, Daniel, Aart Kraay, and Pablo Zoido-Lobatón, 1999, "Governance Matters" (unpublished: World Bank). Available via the Internet: www.worldbank.org/research/growth.
29. Knack, Stephen, and Philip Keefer, 1995, "Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Measures," Economics and Politics, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 207-27.
30. La Ferrara, Eliana, 1996, "A Political Equilibrium Approach to Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries," Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Vol. 5 (November), pp. 287-318.
31. Little, I.M.D., and others, 1993, Booms, Crisis, and Adjustment: The Macroeconomic Experience of Developing Countries (New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank).
32. Mauro, Paolo, 1995, "Corruption and Growth," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 110 (August), pp. 681-712.
33. McGuire, Martin C., and Mancur Olson Jr., 1996, "The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule: The Invisible Hand and the Use of Force," Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 34 (March), pp. 72-96.
34. Ndulu, Benne J., and Stephen O'Connell, 1999, "Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Summer), pp. 41-66.
35. Putnam, Robert D., R. Leonardi, and R. Nanetti, 1993, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press).
36. Robinson, James A., 1999, "When Is a State Predatory?" CES Working Paper No. 178 (Munich: University of Munich, Center for Economic Studies).
37. Rodríguez, Francisco, and Jeffrey D. Sachs, 1999, "Why Do Resource-Abundant Economies Grow More Slowly?" Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 4, No. 3 (September), pp. 277-303.
38. Rodrik, Dani, 1996, "Understanding Economic Policy Reform," Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 34 (March), pp. 9-41.
39. Sachs, Jeffrey, and Andrew M. Warner, 1997, "Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth" (unpublished; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University, Center for International Development . Revised version of NBER Working Paper No. 5398, December 1995.
40. Sachs, Jeffrey, and Andrew M. Warner, 1999, "The Big Push, Natural Resource Booms and Growth," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 59, No. 1 (June), pp. 43-76.
41. Sachs, Jeffrey, and Andrew M. Warner, 2001, "The Curse of Natural Resources," European Economic Review, Vol. 45, No. 4-5 (May), pp. 827-38.
42. Shleifer, Andrei, and Robert W. Vishny, 1997, "A Survey of Corporate Governance," Journal of Finance, Vol. 52 (June), pp. 737-83.
43. Svensson, Jakob, 1998, "Investment, Property Rights and Political Instability: Theory and Evidence," European Economic Review, Vol. 42, No. 7 (July), pp. 1317-41.
44. Svensson, Jakob, 2000a, "Foreign Aid and Rent-Seeking," Journal of International Economics, Vol. 51, No. 2 (August), pp. 437-61.
45. Svensson, Jakob, 2000b, "When Is Foreign Aid Policy Credible? Aid Dependence and Conditionality," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 61, No. 1 (February), pp. 61-84.
46. Tornell Aaron, and Philip R. Lane, 1999, "The Voracity Effect," American Economic Review, Vol. 89 (March), pp. 22-46.
47. Tsikata, Tsidi M., 1998, "Aid Effectiveness: A Survey of the Recent Empirical Literature," IMF Working Paper 98/1 (Washington: International Monetary Fund).
48. Wantchekon, Leonard, 2000, "Why Do Resource Abundant Countries Have Authoritarian Governments?" (unpublished; New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University).
49. Warner, Andrew M., 1992, "Did the Debt Crisis Cause the Investment Crisis?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 107 (November), pp. 1161-86.
50. World Bank, 1998, Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why (New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank).