Natural resource wealth: the challenge of managing a windfall

Frederick Van Der Ploeg; Anthony J. Venables

doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-080511-111003

Natural resource wealth: the challenge of managing a windfall

Frederick Van Der Ploeg, Anthony J. Venables

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Abstract

Many countries have failed to use natural resource wealth to promote growth and development. They have been damaged by the volatility of revenues and have failed to save a sufficiently high proportion of their resource revenues and failed to make high-return investments to support diversification of their economies. This review explores the reasons for these failures and discusses policies to improve performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	315-337
Number of pages	23
Journal	Annual Review of Economics
Volume	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080511-111003
Publication status	Published - Jul 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

absorptive capacity
Dutch disease
fiscal rules
managing windfalls
public investment
resource curse
volatility

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