The local economic impacts of natural resource extraction

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 251-268

  Cust, James ^a,b   Poelhekke, Steven ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Natural Resource Governance Institute   (United States)

^c VU University   (Netherlands)

^d DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dutch disease; identification; mining; spillovers; survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84935027706     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-100814-125106     Document Type: Review

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