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Is There Evidence for a Subnational Resource Curse?

26 April 2016
Author
Jim Cust, Claudia Viale
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Is There Evidence for a Subnational Resource Curse? (PDF 216.79 KB)
Topics
Legislation and regulation, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Subnational governance
Countries
Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Peru, United States
Stakeholders
Civil society actors, Government officials, Journalists and media, Parliaments and political parties, Private sector
Precepts
P1 P2 P5 P7 P8 P12 What are Natural Resource Charter precepts?
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This paper examines the evidence of a subnational resource curse. Natural resource extraction can have positive effects, generating profits, tax revenue for government, and economic linkages to other sectors. In contrast, extraction can also have negative economic, environmental and social consequences, including changes in local relative prices that might crowd out other productive activities; deforestation; pollution and degradation; and the potential for social dislocation and displacement.

This paper evaluates the evidence for how these effects accrue to the subnational economy and whether government policy can lead to positive development impacts while balancing the challenge of costs borne locally.

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