NATURAL RESOURCE ENDOWMENT, THE STATE AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

Richard M. Auty
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Richard M. Auty: Department of Geography, Lancaster University, UK, Postal: Department of Geography, Lancaster University, UK

Journal of International Development, 1997, vol. 9, issue 4, 651-663

Abstract: This paper speculates that a linear causal chain runs from the natural resource endowment to the landholding system, the type of political state, the choice of development strategy and economic performance. It suggests that resource-deficient countries tend to have peasant-dominated landholding systems which foster autonomous political states and growth-promoting economic linkages. Such countries out-perform resource-rich ones which have more varied landholding patterns which emphasise conflicts over rents and foster factional political states and weaker economic linkages. The preoccupation with rents in resource-rich countries impedes beneficial land reform and creates inefficient industry in a counter-productive effort to create non-farm jobs. Resource-deficient countries cannot afford such inefficient transfers and pursue a development strategy which uses scarce resources more effectively. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199706)9:4<651::AID-JID474>3.0.CO;2-4

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