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Title

Beyond the curse : policies to harness the power of natural resources / editors, Rabah Arezki, Thorvaldur Gylfason, and Amadou Sy.

Publication

[Washigton, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Arezki, Rabah.
• Gylfason, Thorvaldur, 1951-
• Sy, Amadou N. R.
• Bank al-Jazāʼir.
• IMF Institute.
• International Monetary Fund.

Description

xi, 275 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Resource curse
• Sovereign wealth funds
• Natural resources
• Fiscal policy
• Economic development
• Finance
• Foreign exchange rates
• Primary commodities
• Diversification in industry
• Monetary policy

Note

• "This book is based on a high-level seminar that took place in Algiers on November 4th and 5th, 2010, under the title Natural Resources, Finance, and Development: Confronting Old and New Challenges. The seminar, organized by the Central Bank of Algeria and the IMF Institute ..."--P. 1.

Contents

Overview / Leslie Lipschitz -- Natural resource endowment : a mixed blessing? / Thorvaldur Gylfason -- Primary commodities : historical perspectives and prospects / Marian Radetzki -- Economic diversification in resource-rich countries / Alan Gelb -- Finance and oil : is there a resource curse? / Thorsten Beck -- The economics of sovereign wealth funds : lessons from Norway / Thomas Ekeli and Amadou N.R. Sy -- Primary commodity price series : lessons for policymakers in resource-rich countries / Kaddour Hadri -- Sustainable fiscal policy for mineral-base economies / Kirk Hamilton and Eduardo Ley -- Fiscal policy in commodity-exporting countries : stability and growth / Rabah Arezki -- How can commodity exporters make fiscal and monetary policy less procyclical? / Jeffrey Frankel -- Natural resources management and financial stability : evidence from Algeria / Mohammed Laksaci -- Copper, the real exchange rate and macroeconomic fluctuations in Chile / José de Gregorio and Felipe Labbé -- The political economy of reform in resource-rich countries / Ragnar Torvik -- Terms of trade and growth of resource economies : contrasting evidence from two African countries / Augustin Kwasi Fosu and Anthony Owusu Gyapong.

Call Number

JBE 12-823

ISBN

• 9781616351458
• 1616351454

LCCN

2011488246

OCLC

759601940

Title

Beyond the curse : policies to harness the power of natural resources / editors, Rabah Arezki, Thorvaldur Gylfason, and Amadou Sy.

Imprint

[Washigton, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, c2011.

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Added Author

Arezki, Rabah.

Gylfason, Thorvaldur, 1951-

Sy, Amadou N. R.

Bank al-Jazāʼir.

IMF Institute.

International Monetary Fund.

Research Call Number

JBE 12-823