Natural Resources and Economic DevelopmentCambridge University Press, 24.11.2005 - 410 Seiten Natural Resources and Economic Development, first published in 2005, explores a key paradox: why is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits to the poor economies of Africa, Asia and Latin America? Part I examines this paradox both through a historical review of resource use and development and through examining current theories which explain the under-performance of today's resource-abundant economies, and proposes a frontier expansion hypothesis as an alternative explanation. Part II develops models to analyse the key economic factors underlying land expansion and water use in developing countries. Part III explores further the 'dualism within dualism' structure of resource dependency, rural poverty and resource degradation within developing countries, and through illustrative country case-studies, proposes policy and institutional reforms necessary for successful resource-based development. |
Inhalt
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Natural resourcebased economic development in history | 51 |
Does natural resource dependence hinder economic development? | 108 |
Frontier expansion and economic development | 155 |
Explaining land use change in developing countries | 185 |
The economics of land conversion | 209 |
Does water availability constrain economic development? | 242 |
Rural poverty and resource degradation | 286 |
Can frontierbased development be successful? | 321 |
Policies for sustainable resourcebased development in poor economies | 344 |
References | 373 |
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Africa aggregate agricultural land expansion analysis Asia autarky Barbier boom Botswana chapter constraints consumption cross-country deforestation developing countries developing economies dualism dualism within dualism Dutch disease economic development economic growth effects environmental estimated example export share Findlay floodplain forest fragile land freshwater frontier expansion frontier land expansion frontier resource frontier-based development global growth rate Hartwick's rule households hypothesis impact important increase indicates institutions investment irrigation Kuznets Curve labor land conversion Latin America long-run low and middle-income Malaysia mangrove mangrove areas mangrove loss manufacturing markets middle-income countries middle-income economies natural capital open access optimal output policies population growth primary product exports property rights regions regression relative rent-seeking resource abundance resource curse resource dependency resource rents resource stock result shrimp farm small open economy stylized facts successful resource-based development supply sustainable Table Thailand tion trade triangular trade variables wage water scarcity water utilization World Bank
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Seite 14 - WCED, or Brundtland Commission). The WCED defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (WCED 1987). Economists are generally comfortable with this broad interpretation of sustainability, as it is easily translatable into economic terms: an increase in well-being today should not have as its consequences a reduction in well-being tomorrow.
Seite 16 - According to the weak sustainability view, there is essentially no inherent difference between natural and other forms of capital, and hence the same "optimal depletion" rules ought to apply to both. As long as the natural capital that is being depleted is replaced with even more valuable physical and human capital, then the value of the aggregate stock - comprising