This paper studies a two-sector economy in which one of the sectors (the “commodity sector”) depends in part on the exploitation of a renewable natural resource and examines the issue in an economy-wide context where ...

This paper discusses two closely related concepts – the Dutch disease and the natural resource curse – and a third one, exchange rate populism, associated to the curse. The Dutch disease is a long-term overvaluation of the ...

El estudio de los recursos naturales y su utilización racional constituye uno de los principales problemas de la economía regional. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo revelar el potencial de los recursos naturales en ...

The world has entered a new and very dynamie information age exemplified by Internet and de World Wide Web. Guyana, like most developing countries, is making strides to become part of this international system. If it does ...

The present study aims to verufy how the quilombola community of Lajeado, in Dianopolis, Tocantins, deals with nature or what is its relationship with the natural resources. This study starts with a bibliographic research ...

In this paper, we show that the commonly observed decline in primary (natural resource using) sector output and employment shares, often termed structural change, can be explained as an endogenous response to the presence ...

Despite their importance in the global economy, the complex competitive dynamics of natural resource industries and their implications for business performance remain largely understudied in strategic management. This ...

Issue No. 2 of the ECLAC Natural Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean Bulletin Analyses the relationship between gender and the region’ s key natural resources: biodiversity, water, energy, food and mining. It ...