NDLI: The resource drag

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Davis, Graham A.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Between 1995 and 2001, Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner published a series of influential empirical studies examining mining and energy’s role in economic growth. Their principal finding was that economies heavily dependent on extractive activity in 1971 grew more slowly than comparable non-extractive economies over the next 19 years. This result has been deemed ‘the resource curse’. The result is generally robust across differing country samples and across extended sample periods. Many have sought to explain the phenomenon, but without unified success. Sachs and Warner suggest that crowding out of a sector or activity with production externalities is the most likely explanation. This paper demonstrates that the relatively slower growth in mineral and energy economies may simply reflect a resource drag whereby optimally managed per capita resource production does not grow substantially over time and hence introduces a drag on the measured growth of per capita economic output. If the resource curse is indeed only a resource drag, this has implications for trade and industrial policies implemented on the presumption that there are growth-reducing market failures associated with mineral and energy production.
Starting Page	155
Ending Page	176
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16124804
Journal	International Economics and Economic Policy
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	16124812
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2011-04-13
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Resource curse Resource drag Dutch disease Crowding out Mining Minerals Energy International Economics Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics Economic Policy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics

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