Services, Inequality, and the Dutch Disease

This paper shows how Dutch disease effects may arise solely from a shift in demand following a natural resource discovery. The natural resource wealth increases the demand for non-tradable luxury services due to non-homothetic preferences. Labor th...

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Main Authors: Battaile, Bill, Chisik, Richard, Onder, Harun
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
GDP
WEB
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/07/19760476/services-inequality-dutch-disease
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19359