Most cited papers in Natural Resources and Economic Development
What are the most cited papers in Natural Resources and Economic Development?
The most cited paper in Natural Resources and Economic Development is "INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES" (Stephen Knack, Philip Keefer, 1995), with 5,188 citations. Next come "The curse of natural resources" (4,145) and "Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development" (3,845).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 485 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES Stephen Knack, Philip Keefer · Economics and Politics | Nov 1995 | 5,188 |
| 2 | The curse of natural resources Jeffrey David Sachs, Andrew M. Warner · European Economic Review | May 2001 | 4,145 |
| 3 | Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development Mancur Olson · American Political Science Review | Sep 1993 | 3,845 |
| 4 | Does Oil Hinder Democracy? Michael L. Ross · World Politics | Apr 2001 | 3,423 |
| 5 | The Theory of Economic Development Simone Raudino | 2016 | 2,987 |
| 6 | Institutions and the Resource Curse Halvor Mehlum, Karl Ove Moene, Ragnar Torvik · The Economic Journal | 2006 | 2,839 |
| 7 | Unbundling Institutions Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson · Journal of Political Economy | 19 Sep 2005 | 2,264 |
| 8 | A conceptual framework for analysing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes Claudia Pahl‐Wostl · Global Environmental Change | 16 Jul 2009 | 2,251 |
| 9 | Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing? Frederick van der Ploeg · Journal of Economic Literature | Jun 2011 | 2,208 |
| 10 | Natural resources, education, and economic development Þorvaldur Gylfason · European Economic Review | May 2001 | 2,101 |
| 11 | Innovation: Mapping the winds of creative destruction W. J. Abernathy, KimB. Clark · Research Policy | Apr 1993 | 2,055 |
| 12 | The Political Economy of the Resource Curse Michael L. Ross · World Politics | 1999 | 2,000 |
| 13 | Premature deindustrialization Dani Rodrik · Journal of Economic Growth | 27 Nov 2015 | 1,928 |
| 14 | Is gold a safe haven? International evidence Dirk G. Baur, Thomas K. J. McDermott · Journal of Banking & Finance | 5 Jan 2010 | 1,896 |
| 15 | Political foundations of the resource curse James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik, Thierry Verdier · Journal of Development Economics | 21 Mar 2006 | 1,674 |
| 16 | The economic burden of malaria John L. Gallup, Jeffrey David Sachs · American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2001 | 1,496 |
| 17 | The big push, natural resource booms and growth Jeffrey David Sachs, Andrew M. Warner · Journal of Development Economics | Jun 1999 | 1,361 |
| 18 | What Do We Know about Natural Resources and Civil War? Michael L. Ross · Journal of Peace Research | May 2004 | 1,354 |
| 19 | Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: The Role of Natural Resources, Market Size, Government Policy, Institutions and Political Instability Elizabeth Asiedu · World Economy | 2006 | 1,324 |
| 20 | Expanded Trade and GDP Data Kristian Skrede Gleditsch · Journal of Conflict Resolution | Oct 2002 | 1,288 |
| 21 | Resource and output trends in the United States since 1870 Moses Abramovitz · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 28 Apr 1989 | 1,261 |
| 22 | Natural Resources, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution Macartan Humphreys · Journal of Conflict Resolution | 27 Jun 2005 | 1,231 |
| 23 | Addressing the Natural Resource Curse: An Illustration from Nigeria Xavier Sala-i-Martín, Arvind Subramanian · Journal of African Economies | 19 Dec 2012 | 1,214 |
| 24 | The narrow moving band, the Dutch disease, and the competitive consequences of Mrs. Thatcher Paúl Krugman · Journal of Development Economics | Oct 1987 | 1,190 |
| 25 | The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades * Nathan Nunn · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 2008 | 1,157 |
| 26 | What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse? Michael L. Ross · Annual Review of Political Science | 22 Dec 2014 | 1,146 |
| 27 | The resource curse revisited and revised: A tale of paradoxes and red herrings Christa N. Brunnschweiler, Erwin Bulte · Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 20 Feb 2008 | 1,132 |
| 28 | The erosion of colonial trade linkages after independence Keith Charles Head, Thierry Mayer, John Ries · Journal of International Economics | 25 Jan 2010 | 1,086 |
| 29 | Neoliberal nature and the nature of neoliberalism James J. McCarthy, Scott Prudham · Geoforum | 27 Jan 2004 | 1,035 |
| 30 | The “Out of Africa” Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development Quamrul H. Ashraf, Oded Galor · American Economic Review | 28 Jan 2013 | 958 |
| 31 | The Varieties of Resource Experience: Natural Resource Export Structures and the Political Economy of Economic Growth Jonathan Isham · The World Bank Economic Review | 31 Aug 2005 | 955 |
| 32 | Goodbye Washington Consensus, hello Washington confusion?: A review of the World Bank's 'Economic growth in the 1990s: Learning from a decade of reform' Dani Rodrik · Panoeconomicus | 2008 | 938 |
| 33 | Natural resources, rent seeking and welfare Ragnar Torvik · Journal of Development Economics | Apr 2002 | 912 |
| 34 | The false developmental promise of Corporate Social Responsibility: evidence from multinational oil companies Jędrzej George Frynas · International Affairs | May 2005 | 864 |
| 35 | Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Bert Bolin, Robert Costanza et al. · Ecological Economics | Nov 1995 | 861 |
| 36 | Does Mother Nature Corrupt? Natural Resources, Corruption, and Economic Growth Carlos Antônio Moreira Leite, Jens Weidmann · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2001 | 861 |
| 37 | Seeing Like an Oil Company: Space, Security, and Global Capital in Neoliberal Africa JAMES G. FERGUSON · American Anthropologist | 20 Aug 2005 | 854 |
| 38 | Primary Commodity Exports and Civil War James D. Fearon · Journal of Conflict Resolution | 27 Jun 2005 | 834 |
| 39 | The resource curse hypothesis and its transmission channels Elissaios Papyrakis, Reyer Gerlagh · Journal of Comparative Economics | 16 Jan 2004 | 825 |
| 40 | Resource Rents, Governance, and Conflict Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler · Journal of Conflict Resolution | 27 Jun 2005 | 822 |
| 41 | Resource curse? governmentality, oil and power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria Michael John Watts · Geopolitics | Mar 2004 | 819 |
| 42 | How Do Natural Resources Influence Civil War? Evidence from Thirteen Cases Michael L. Ross · International Organization | Feb 2004 | 814 |
| 43 | The `Dutch Disease': A Disease After All? Sweder J. G. van Wijnbergen · The Economic Journal | Mar 1984 | 799 |
| 44 | Theories of international regimes Stephan M. Haggard, Beth A. Simmons · International Organization | 1987 | 794 |
| 45 | Resource intensity, institutions, and development Erwin Bulte, Richard Damania, Robert T. T. Deacon · World Development | Jun 2005 | 793 |
| 46 | The evolution of the natural resource curse thesis: A critical literature survey Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Hooi Hooi Lean, Jeremy Edmund Clark · Resources Policy | 14 Dec 2016 | 792 |
| 47 | Is Transparency the Key to Reducing Corruption in Resource-Rich Countries? Ivar Kolstad, Arne Wiig · World Development | 15 Oct 2008 | 786 |
| 48 | The concept of energy security: Beyond the four As Aleh Cherp, Jessica Jewell · Energy Policy | 31 Oct 2014 | 785 |
| 49 | A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War Michael L. Ross · Annual Review of Political Science | 7 Apr 2006 | 774 |
| 50 | Sustaining development in mineral economies: The resource curse thesis Coby van der Linde · Resources Policy | Mar 1994 | 749 |
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