Investing volatile resource revenues in capital-scarce economies

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 193-221

  Richmond, Christine ^a,b   Yackovlev, Irene ^b   Yang, Shu Chun S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; INVESTMENT; MACROECONOMICS; SAVINGS;

ANGOLA;

EID: 84923212814     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: 14680106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0106.12099     Document Type: Article

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