| Political Economy, Governance and Conflict |
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Resource management requires good governance. Numerous empirical studies make it clear that the 'resource curse' is a problem for countries with governance indicators below a critical threshold, but not above it. Furthermore, natural resources can erode the quality of governance in a country by encouraging rent seeking, corruption and, in extreme cases, civil war. Our programme of research looks at the political economy of government choices and the circumstances which lead to bad decisions being taken.
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| Sambit Battacharyya & Roland Hodler | Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption |
| Christa Brunnschweiler & Erwin H Bulte | Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: resource abundance, dependence and the onset of civil wars |
| Christa Brunnschweiler & Erwin H Bulte | Fractionalization and the Fight over Natural Resources: ethnicity, language, religion and the onset of civil war |
| Rick van der Ploeg | Rapacious Resource Depletion: excessive investment and insecure property rights |
| Paul Collier & Anke Hoeffler | Testing the Neocon Agenda: democracy in resource-rich societies |
| Rick van der Ploeg | Why Do Many Resource Rich Countries Have Negative Genuine Saving? Anticipation of Better Times or Rapacious Rent Seeking |
| Benedikt Goderis & Samuel Malone | Natural Resource Booms and Inequality: theory and evidence |
| Rick van der Ploeg | Voracious Transformation of a Common Natural Resource into Productive Capital |