Fiscal Policy and the Natural Resources Curse: How to Escape from the Poverty Trap

ISBN-13: 9780367110796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 246 str.

Paul Mosley

Opis

Fiscal Policy and the Natural Resources Curse ask why many governments of natural resource-intensive countries are incapable, in a globalised world, of dealing with the natural-resource curse. This book offers a detailed analysis of the power-relationships which underpin the natural resource curse, using both statistical analysis and country case-studies from Africa and Latin America to pinpoint the strategies that have enable developing countries to break out of the poverty trap.

O autorze

Paul Mosley is a development economist with strong interests in politics and the welfare state. He has held professorial chairs at the universities of Manchester and Reading, and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Sheffield, UK.