Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 475-489

  Segal, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global poverty; Income distribution; Inequality; Natural resource curse; Redistribution; Resource wealth

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; NATURAL RESOURCE; POVERTY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 79951856569     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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