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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788334403321

Autore

Alichi Ali

Titolo

An Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse : : The Income Effect Channel / / Ali Alichi, Rabah Arezki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-8907-4

1-4527-0567-4

9786612843273

1-4518-7259-3

1-282-84327-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (26 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

ArezkiRabah

Soggetti

Resource curse

Economic development

Exports and Imports

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Natural Resources

Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data

Data Access

Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: General

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

International Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics

Environmental and Ecological Economics: General

Public finance & taxation

International economics

Environmental management

Expenditure

Income

Current spending

Capital flows

Natural resources



National accounts

Balance of payments

Environment

Expenditures, Public

Capital movements

Nigeria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; Tables; 1. Composition of Government Expenditures in Oil Exporting; II. A Simple Model; A. Closed Economy; Figures; 1. Non-Hydrocarbon GDP Growth and Government Current Spending; 2. Transition Paths; B. Openness and Resource Curse; C. Altruism and Resource Curse; III. Empirical Investigation; A. Empirical Methodology; 3. Resource Curse Channels; B. Results; 2. Growth Regressions; IV. Conclusion; 3. Growth Regressions using Restrictions on Trade and Capital Flows; References; Appendices; A. Data; Appendix Tables; 4. Data Description; 5. Descriptive Statistics

6. List of Countries Included in the Sample B. Testing for Whether a Higher Degree of Altruism Dampens the Adverse Effect of Government Current Spending on Non-Hydrocarbon GDP Growth; 7. Growth Regressions using Regional Dummies; C. Regional integration of two large open economies

Sommario/riassunto

The paper provides an alternative explanation for the "resource curse" based on the income effect resulting from high government current spending in resource rich economies. Using a simple life cycle framework, we show that private investment in the non-resource sector is adversely affected if private agents expect extra government current spending financed through resource sector revenues in the future. This income channel of the resource curse is stronger for countries with lower degrees of openness and forward altruism. We empirically validate these findings by estimating non-hydrocarbon sector growth regressions using a panel of 25 oil-exporting countries over 1992-2005.