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Contesting Resources - Rent Seeking, Conflict and the Natural Resource Curse

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dc.creator Bulte, Erwin
dc.creator Wick, Katharina
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:06:58Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:06:58Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19827
dc.identifier ppn:50080916X
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:gdec05:3509
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19827
dc.description A growing empirical literature links natural resource abundance and "pointiness" to impeded economic growth and civil strife. We develop rent seeking and conflict models that capture the most salient features of contests for resource rents, and show how both resource abundance and geographical clustering can be associated with intense contests and sub-optimal economic performance. However, we also show that these relationships are not necessarily monotonous { pointiness can trigger more intense contests but can also facilitate the coordination on peaceful outcomes. Finally we show that contesting resources through violent conflict may yield superior outcomes (from an economy-wide perspective) than contests through rent seeking.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Kiel 2005 / Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics 36
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject point resources
dc.subject civil war
dc.subject economic growth and resources
dc.title Contesting Resources - Rent Seeking, Conflict and the Natural Resource Curse
dc.type doc-type:conferenceObject


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