The vision of the role of natural resources in the development process has changed over the last thirty years. The optimistic views of the beginning became more moderate, even pessimistic. This thesis focuses on the role of oil in the political, institutional, and economic performances of African countries, some of which are richly endowed. It revolves around three empirical essays. Chapter 2 focuses on the duration of political regimes in Africa and shows from a duration model that revenues from oil exploitation play an important role. Chapter 3 examines the high indebtedness of oil-producing countries. A collateral effect of oil resources is highlighted, it dominates an instability effect. Chapter 4 includes, in a dynamic computable gener...
This thesis evaluates the resource curse with regards to Nigeria\u92s development performance. Rejec...
Natural resource revenues have played a key role in the conflicts that have plagued resource-rich Af...
Petroleum extraction is a lucrative source of tax revenue for many governments in Sub- Saharan Afric...
The vision of the role of natural resources in the development process has changed over the last thi...
This dissertation explores the experiences and economic performance of the two established petroleum...
African governments commonly manage their oil wealth in ways that generate negative political and ec...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-107).There has been as yet no empirical study that h...
Esquisses Les Afriques dans le mondeA prolific and non-consensual academic literature makes it diff...
This thesis is a collection of political economy research topics fitting into the contemporary field...
Africa’s integration into globalization is a product of rentier economies of diverse origins (the sa...
It is often underlined that African oil producing countries are politically unstable as a result of ...
Plus de cinquante ans après leur indépendance, la majorité des pays de la région Afrique du Nord et ...
WP 2007-05 March 2007Angola is more dependent on oil than any other country in Sub Saharan Africa an...
Sub-Saharan-Africa is considered the fastest-growing oil-producing region worldwide.Production has r...
Oil revenues play a vital and central role in the economies of developing countries and African coun...
This thesis evaluates the resource curse with regards to Nigeria\u92s development performance. Rejec...
Natural resource revenues have played a key role in the conflicts that have plagued resource-rich Af...
Petroleum extraction is a lucrative source of tax revenue for many governments in Sub- Saharan Afric...
The vision of the role of natural resources in the development process has changed over the last thi...
This dissertation explores the experiences and economic performance of the two established petroleum...
African governments commonly manage their oil wealth in ways that generate negative political and ec...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-107).There has been as yet no empirical study that h...
Esquisses Les Afriques dans le mondeA prolific and non-consensual academic literature makes it diff...
This thesis is a collection of political economy research topics fitting into the contemporary field...
Africa’s integration into globalization is a product of rentier economies of diverse origins (the sa...
It is often underlined that African oil producing countries are politically unstable as a result of ...
Plus de cinquante ans après leur indépendance, la majorité des pays de la région Afrique du Nord et ...
WP 2007-05 March 2007Angola is more dependent on oil than any other country in Sub Saharan Africa an...
Sub-Saharan-Africa is considered the fastest-growing oil-producing region worldwide.Production has r...
Oil revenues play a vital and central role in the economies of developing countries and African coun...
This thesis evaluates the resource curse with regards to Nigeria\u92s development performance. Rejec...
Natural resource revenues have played a key role in the conflicts that have plagued resource-rich Af...
Petroleum extraction is a lucrative source of tax revenue for many governments in Sub- Saharan Afric...