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The rent curse : natural resources, policy choice, and economic development
- Title
- The rent curse : natural resources, policy choice, and economic development / Richard M. Auty and Haydn I. Furlonge.
- Author
- Auty, R. M. (Richard M.)
- Publication
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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- Additional Authors
- Furlonge, Haydn I.
- Description
- xiv, 263 pages; 24 cm
- 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. The Rent Curse: Natural Resources, Policy Choice, and Economic Development studies two rent driven models to suggest that low rent incentivizes the elite to grow the economy efficiently, whereas high rent encourages rent siphoning for immediate enrichment at the expense of long-term growth. It looks at low rent Mauritius and high rent Trinidad and Tobago to show that low rent stimulates rapid and relatively egalitarian economic growth with incremental democratization, whereas high rent inhibits competitive diversification and frequently causes protracted growth collapses. The post-war prioritization of industry has proved a double edged sword. The Rent Curse employs rent driven models to explain why low rent East Asia has closed the income gap with advanced economies; why rent rich Latin America may be de-industrializing; why agricultural neglect launched sub-Saharan Africa on a false start to economic development; why South Asia pioneers growth through export services; and why governments in the oil-rich Gulf states raised the incomes of nationals without conferring the skills to sustain them.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index.
- Contents
- Context -- Emergence of rent-dependent development -- Differential rent-driven development in global regions -- Analysing the role of rent in economic development.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-893
- ISBN
- 0198828861
- 9780198828860
- LCCN
- 2018945756
- OCLC
- 1037023475
- Author
- Auty, R. M. (Richard M.), author.
- Title
- The rent curse : natural resources, policy choice, and economic development / Richard M. Auty and Haydn I. Furlonge.
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Furlonge, Haydn I., author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-893