The Oil Nouveau-Riche and Arms Imports

Countries that strike it rich when exploring for oil and gas often fail to see growth materialize. This paper shows that one way things can get messy is via squandering new wealth, based on future resource revenues, on arms imports. In the five yea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vezina, Pierre-Louis
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/302681598970589744/The-Oil-Nouveau-Riche-and-Arms-Imports
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34422