Dutch Disease and Spending Strategies in a Resource-Rich Low-income Country : The Case of Niger
This paper examines spending plans suggested by the recent literature regarding Dutch disease and examines their implications to Niger relative to its expanding mineral sector. The key to the benefits of significant mineral revenue lies with the productivity and supply responses of spending. If significant output gain is ensured, then there is little difference across the spending plans in their effects on real consumption. The overshooting of relative prices of the non-tradable sector or the shrinking share of traded sectors in gross domestic product is also ameliorated with greater supply fl... Mehr ...
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Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
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World Bank
Washington DC |
Schlagwörter: | BOOM-BUST CYCLE / DUTCH DISEASE / HUMAN CAPITAL / MINERAL REVENUE / POVERTY REDUCTION / REAL CONSUMPTION / SPENDING STRATEGIES / SUPPLY FLEXIBILITY |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26688468 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16923 |