The rent curse : natural resources, policy choice, and economic development /

By:

Auty, R. M. (Richard M.) [author.]

Contributor(s):

Furlonge, Haydn I [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford scholarship onlinePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:

text
still image

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191867330 (ebook) :

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

338.9 23

LOC classification:

HD75

Online resources:

Oxford scholarship online

Summary: The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent. Total rent can therefore be from one-tenth to two-fifths of GDP and sometimes more. Rent is detached from the activity that generates it and is up for grabs so it feeds contents for its capture and its deployment can radically impact the development trajectory for better or worse, all too often for worse. This text studies two rent driven models to suggest that low rent incentivises the elite to grow the economy efficiently, whereas high rent encourages rent siphoning for immediate enrichment at the expense of long-term growth.

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This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent. Total rent can therefore be from one-tenth to two-fifths of GDP and sometimes more. Rent is detached from the activity that generates it and is up for grabs so it feeds contents for its capture and its deployment can radically impact the development trajectory for better or worse, all too often for worse. This text studies two rent driven models to suggest that low rent incentivises the elite to grow the economy efficiently, whereas high rent encourages rent siphoning for immediate enrichment at the expense of long-term growth.

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