How does implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) affect economic growth? Evidence from developing countries

Neerbewendé Abdoul Rachid Pafadnam ()
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Neerbewendé Abdoul Rachid Pafadnam: CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne

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Abstract: Although there is no consensus on the relationship between natural resource abundance and economic growth, much of the economic literature suggests that natural resource abundance negatively affects economic growth in developing countries, leading to the resource curse theory. This situation led the international community to create the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in 2003 to promote the effective contribution of natural resources to economic growth through a process involving governments, extractive industries, and civil society. Considering 99 developing countries from 1995 to 2019 and applying recent heterogeneity-robust difference-in-differences (DID) estimators, we find a positive and statistically significant relationship between EITI implementation and economic growth. Several robustness checks support this result.Most interestingly, the analysis of EITI's dynamic effects reveals that these effects occur only in the short and medium terms. In addition, we tested several potential transmission channels and identified the increase in foreign direct investment and the rise in resource revenue as the main transmission channels. Moreover, we postulate and investigate four possible explanations behind the EITI's mixed results on long-term growth: the lack of evidence of a negative relationship between natural resource abundance and long-term economic growth over the study period, a possible increasing reliance on non-resource taxes, a possible signaling effect targeted by member countries, and the lack of effect of EITI implementation on reducing corruption. Finally, the document provides economic policy recommendations for better governance in the management of natural resources in order to increase their contribution to development financing. Furthermore, improving governance in managing critical minerals is vital to avoid a "new curse of critical minerals".

Keywords: Governance Natural resources Economic growth Extractive industries transparency Resource curse Heterogeneous and dynamic treatment effects. JEL Classification: G38 O13 O19 O43 Q32 Q38; Governance; Natural resources; Economic growth; Extractive industries transparency; Resource curse; Heterogeneous and dynamic treatment effects.; JEL Classification: G38; O13; O19; O43; Q32; Q38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-12
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Published in European Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 85, pp.102584. ⟨10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102584⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102584

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