Natural Resources and Productivity: Can Banking Development Mitigate the Curse?

This paper contributes to the literature concerning the natural resource curse by exploring the role of banking development in reducing the resource curse in a natural resource-based country, Yemen. Using time series data over the period 1980–2012, we find that natural resource dependence is nega...

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Main Authors: Abubakr Badeeb, Ramez, Hooi, Hooi Lean
Format: Article
Published: MDPI 2017
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/5/2/11/htm
http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/5/2/11/htm
http://eprints.usm.my/37092/1/(Natural_Resources_and_Productivity)_economies%2D05%2D00011.pdf