Harvard Political Review - Oil and Development in Africa

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  Can Petroleum Aid development?

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  Neoclassical economists approach petroleum as a "resource curse", alleviated only through appropriate institutional incentives promoting lagging comparative advantages (e.g. export crops). However, broader study of petroleum corporations, authoritarian governments, international supporters, and oppr

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