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Replication data for: Does the 'resource curse' hold for growth in genuine income as well?, World Development, 32 (10), 2004, pp. 1627-1640

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Title Replication data for: Does the 'resource curse' hold for growth in genuine income as well?, World Development, 32 (10), 2004, pp. 1627-1640
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5QATMZ
 
Creator Neumayer, Eric
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Existing studies analyzing the so-called resource curse hypothesis regress growth in
gross domestic product (GDP) on some measure of resource intensity. This is problematic as
GDP counts natural and other capital depreciation as income. Deducting depreciation from
GDP to arrive at genuine income, we test whether the ‘‘curse’’ still holds true. We find supporting
evidence, but the growth disadvantage of resource-intensive economies is slightly weaker in terms
of genuine income than GDP. We suggest that this provides additional, but somewhat weak and
limited, evidence in support of those who argue that the ‘‘curse’’ is partly due to unsustainable overconsumption.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Neumayer, Eric