Do natural resources depress income per capita?

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 504-521

  Arezki, Rabah ^a   van der Ploeg, Frederick ^b,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 79960476776     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2011.00623.x     Document Type: Article

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