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The rent curse : natural resources, policy choice, and economic development / Richard M. Auty and Haydn I. Furlonge.
LIBRA HC85 .A98 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auty, R. M. (Richard M.), author.
- Furlonge, Haydn I., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural resources--Management.
- Natural resources.
- Economic development.
- Rent (Economic theory).
- Resource curse.
- Industrial policy.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 263 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- 1 Aims, Approach, and Structure of the Study p. 3
- 2 Natural Resources, Country Size, and Development: A Review of the Literature p. 16
- Section 2 Emergence of Rent-Dependent Development
- 3 The Rent-Seeking Legacy of the Plantation Economy in Trinidad and Tobago p. 47
- 4 The Staple Trap in High-Rent Trinidad and Tobago p. 70
- 5 Low-Rent Mauritius as a Developmental Counterfactual for High-Rent Trinidad and Tobago p. 94
- Section 3 Differential Rent-Driven Development in Global Regions
- 6 Agricultural Neglect and Retarded Structural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa p. 119
- 7 The Evolving Role of Manufacturing in Economic Development p. 146
- 8 Prospective Growth Impacts of Export Services p. 174
- Section 4 Analysing the Role of Rent in Economic Development
- 9 The Principal Findings and some Policy Implications p. 205.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198828861
- 9780198828860
- OCLC:
- 1037023475
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