Natural resource wealth: The challenge of managing a windfall

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 315-337

  Van Der Ploeg, Frederick ^a   Venables, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

absorptive capacity; Dutch disease; fiscal rules; managing windfalls; public investment; resource curse; volatility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873112063     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080511-111003     Document Type: Article

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