1st Edition
Sustaining Development in Mineral Economies The Resource Curse Thesis
By Richard Auty
Copyright 1993
284 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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It is widely believed that natural mineral resources are desirable. However there is growing evidence that this may not always be the case. Indeed, it seems that natural assets can distort the economy to such a degree that the benefit actually becomes a curse. In Sustaining Development in Mineral Economies , Richard Auty highlights these drawbacks and the devastating effect they can have on... Read more
List of figures and tables, 1 THE RESOURCE CURSE THESIS AND MINERAL ECONOMIES, Part I: Coping with mineral price downswings, Part II: Macro policy in four developing American countries, Part III: Sectoral resilience in the developing Americas, Part IV: Inter-cultural comparison, Part V: Conclusions and policy implications, References, Index
Biography
Richard Auty
`... a most welcome contribution to the applied economic geography of developing countries.' - Dr Robert Gwynne, University of Birmingham
