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Curse or blessing? natural resources and human development (2010).
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| Author | Pineda, José RodrÃguez, Francisco |
| Abstract | Comments should be addressed by email to the author(s). 1 This paper has benefited from previous discussions with Daniel Lederman, Ricardo Hausmann, Jeni Klugman, Jose Antonio Ocampo and Jaime Ros, as well as seminar participants at HDRO. We are grateful to Daniel Lederman and Bill Maloney for kindly providing us access to their data. The paper also benefited from excellent research assistance provided by Zachary Gidwitz, Martin Philipp Heger and Mark Purser. All errors remain our This paper argues against a natural resource curse for human development. We find evidence that changes in human development from 1970 to 2005, proxied by changes in the Human Development Index, are positively and significantly correlated with natural resource abundance. While our results are consistent with those of other authors who have recently argued that natural resources do not adversely affect growth, we find strong evidence that natural resources have a positive effect on human development and particularly on its non-income dimensions. However, results from Latin America interactions show that the positive impact of natural resources in this region is significantly smaller than in the rest of the world. These results contribute to a broader |
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| Publisher Date | 2010-01-01 |
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