Routledge Studies in Development Economi Fiscal Policy and the Natural Resources Curse: How to Escape from the Poverty Trap, (Hardcover)

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.