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A MIXED BLESSING: Natural Resources and Economic Growth
Abstract
This paper diagnoses the symptoms of the Dutch disease in a two-sector stochastic endogenous growth model. A productive, low-skill-intensive primary sector causes the currency to appreciate in real terms, thus hampering the development of a high-skill-intensive secondary sector and thereby reducing growth. Moreover, the volatility of the primary sector generates real-exchange-rate uncertainty and may thus reduce investment and learning in the secondary sector and hence also growth. Cross-sectional and panel regressions based on data for 125 countries in the period 1960–1992 confirm a statistically significant inverse relationship between the size of the primary sector and economic growth, but not between the volatility of the real exchange rate and growth.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gylfason, T., Herbertsson, T. T., & Zoega, G.
- Venue
- Macroeconomic Dynamics
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1999-06
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 204-225
- ISSN
- 1365-1005 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8056
- OpenAlex
- W1525171360
- Cited by
- 652
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 18.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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