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• Matthew Yglesias » Norwegian Socialists

  
  Oil and Gas Information — Authority: 139
  The Norwegian political system has done an impressive job of avoiding the resource curse and by all accounts is using the funds in a remarkably responsible manner—saving the bulk of the money for the time when the oil and gas are gone. … Originally posted here:  Matthew Yglesias » Norwegian Socialists
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• Countdown in Copenhagen

  
  Climate Change — Authority: 421
  I read a really good book by Steve Schlesinger a few years back called Act of Creation .  It’s about the San Francisco conference at which the United Nations was born.  There was a lot of intrigue and high drama, with plenty at stake.  There are stories of heroes, too, like Edward Stettinius, the unsung ...
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• Economists Notebook: Dutch Disease

  
  The Oregon Economics Blog — Authority: 469
  The term Dutch Disease in economics refers to an incident that occurred in the Netherlands: in 1959 a massive natural gas field was found beneath the North Sea. What was supposed to be a boon for the Dutch economy, massive revenues for the exportation of this gas to other countries, turned out to have an ...
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• Digging into the resource curse: Research into oil revenue and Brazilian municipalities

  
  Knowledge Problem — Authority: 518
  Michael Giberson A paper by Francesco Caselli and Guy Michaels, “ Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil ,” takes a closer look at the how the resource curse works its anti-magic. ( Ungated version here .) The abstract: We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why is There So Much Poverty in the World? An Overview of Some of the Possible Causes of Poverty

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 505
  In a previous post , I already mentioned some of the possible causes of poverty: bad governance , corruption , absence of the rule of law, lack of economic freedom , the resource curse , debt burdens , lack of education and healthcare , AIDS , war , poverty traps etc. In other posts, I mentioned obesity ...
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• Resource Curse in Action

  
  CIPE Development Blog — Authority: 423
  There are many ways of making money. One of them is rigging the system in your own favor. The son of Equatorial Guinea’s ruler has perfected the approach in his own back yard . …the president’s son and agriculture minister has transferred at least $73m (£44m)into America to pay for a $35m Malibu mansion ...
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