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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.Institutions, Economic Growth, and the Curse of Natural Resources
The proposition that natural resources, like physical and human capital, would spur economic growth would not seem to be controversial. So in the 1990s, when Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner (1995) showed empirical evidence of a natural resource curse-the negative impact of natural resources on economic growth-it is no surprise that their finding inspired a large body of new empirical research.
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Amela Karabegovic
Amela Karabegovi is a former Senior Economist of the Fraser Institute. She holds a B.M. (Great Distinction) in General Managementfrom the University of Lethbridge in Alberta and an M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She was a coauthor of the Economic Freedom of North America , Economic Freedom of the Arab World , Myths and Realities of TILMA , Transparency of Labour Relations Boards in Canada and the United States , Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States , Measuring the Flexibility of Labour Relations Laws in Canada and the United States , Tax and Expenditure Limitations: The Next Step in Fiscal Discipline , and the Prosperity Series-Ontario .… Read more Read Less…
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