Contesting Resources - Rent Seeking, Conflict and the Natural Resource Curse

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A growing empirical literature links natural resource abundance and "pointiness" to impeded economic growth and civil strife. We develop rent seeking and conflict models that capture the most salient features of contests for resource rents, and show how both resource abundance and geographical clustering can be associated with intense contests and sub-optimal economic performance. However, we also show that these relationships are not necessarily monotonous { pointiness can trigger more intense contests but can also facilitate the coordination on peaceful outcomes. Finally we show that contesting resources through violent conflict may yield superior outcomes (from an economy-wide perspective) than contests through rent seeking.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Kiel 2005 ; No. 36

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: point resources ; civil war ; economic growth and resources

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bulte, Erwin ; Wick, Katharina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer
• (where): Hannover
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19827
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET