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Sovereign Debt and the Resource Curse
Mare Sarr,Erwin Bulte,Chris Meissner,Chris Meissner,Timothy Swanson +4 more
- pp 51-61
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The article was published on 2011-11-29. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Internal debt & Debt levels and flows.read more
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The resource curse – What have we learned from two decades of intensive research:Introduction to the Special Issue
TL;DR: In this article, a special issue compiles eight papers from some of the most prominent contributors to this literature, combining original research with critical reflection on the current stock of knowledge, collectively emphasizing the complexities and conditionalities of the curse.
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Sovereign credit ratings: Discovering unorthodox factors and variables
TL;DR: In this article, a broadened understanding of indicators used to analyse and assign sovereign ratings, and a prioritisation of analysed aspects following the inclusion of unorthodox factors and variables is presented.
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Extreme risk spillovers from commodity indexes to sovereign CDS spreads of commodity dependent countries: A VAR quantile analysis
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the co-movement and dependence structure between four commodity indexes and sovereign credit risk via an extreme volatility risk spillover methodology, and found that the volatility of the primary commodity export category (e.g., agriculture, mineral, and energy) substantially influences the sovereign CDS volatility.
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How Do Oil Prices Affect Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads?
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined whether oil price changes have significant impacts on emerging market sovereign bond spreads and found that global aggregate demand shocks are of secondary importance, while shocks to oil supply play an insignificant role.
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Attracting and retaining FDI: Africa gas and oil sector
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors performed a systematic literature review of related articles and reports published over two decades (2001-2020) and applied the foreign direct investment theory and Dunning's (1979) Ownership, Location, Internalization (OLI) framework to capture the drivers of FDI in the African gas and oil industry.
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler +1 more
TL;DR: Collier and Hoeffler as discussed by the authors compare two contrasting motivations for rebellion: greed and grievance, and show that many rebellions are linked to the capture of resources (such as diamonds in Angola and Sierra Leone, drugs in Colombia, and timber in Cambodia).
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Greed and grievance in civil war
Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99 and found that economic viability appears to be the predominant systematic explanation of rebellion, while atypically severe grievances such as high inequality, a lack of political rights, or ethnic and religious divisions in society.
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Does Oil Hinder Democracy
TL;DR: The authors examined three aspects of this "oil impedes democracy" claim and found that oil exports are strongly associated with authoritarian rule, and that other types of mineral exports have a similar antidemocratic effect, while other commodity exports do not.
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Political Instability and Economic Growth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between political instability and per capita GDP growth in a sample of 113 countries for the period 1950 through 1982 and found that in countries and time periods with a high propensity of government collapse, growth is significantly lower than otherwise.
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Political instability and economic growth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between political instability and per capita GDP growth in a sample of 113 countries for the period 1950 through 1982 and found that in countries and time periods with a high propensity of government collapse, growth is significantly lower than otherwise.