The resource curse revisited: Governance and natural resources

Public Choice

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-20

  Busse, Matthias ^a,b   Gröning, Steffen ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Hamburg Institute of International Economics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corruption; Governance; Natural resources; Resource curse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871252307     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-011-9804-0     Document Type: Article

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