Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan African Countries? : Evidence from a Panel of Countries /

We examine the impact of resource windfall on the standard of living both in the short-run and long-run, using a sample of 130 countries, 1963-2007. Then, we systematically investigate the effect of resource windfall on welfare in three different groups of countries: We find that in the short-run re...

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1. Verfasser: Lee, Munseob
Weitere Verfasser: Gueye, Cheikh
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/083
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF
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