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Resource Rents, Coercion, and Local Development : Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa / Paulo Bastos.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Bastos, Paulo.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coercion.
- Communities and Human Settlements.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Emerging Markets.
- Historical Development.
- Housing and Human Habitats.
- Investment and Investment Climate.
- Labor Policies.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Natural Resources Trade.
- Private Sector Development.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Wage Bargaining.
- Local Subjects:
- Coercion.
- Communities and Human Settlements.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Emerging Markets.
- Historical Development.
- Housing and Human Habitats.
- Investment and Investment Climate.
- Labor Policies.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Natural Resources Trade.
- Private Sector Development.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Wage Bargaining.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (49 pages)
- Other Title:
- Resource Rents, Coercion, and Local Development
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper examines how the dismantling of coercive institutions associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 affected the istribution of rents from natural resource exports. It identifies the interplay between coercive institutions and natural resource rents as an important driver of local evelopment. Using data from the 1996 census, the paper ocuments large income gaps between communities located just-inside and just-outside the former self-governing territories set aside for black inhabitants. Examining relative changes between 1996 and 2011, the paper finds that spatial income convergence was considerably stronger among marginalized communities with higher initial exposure to resource rents. These results accord with standard bargaining theory in which the dismantling of coercive institutions improves the negotiating position of unionized workers in the mining industry.
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