Capital Accumulation and Resource Depletion : A Hartwick Rule Counterfactual

How rich would resource-abundant countries be if they had actually followed the Hartwick Rule (invest resource rents in other assets) over the past 30 years? The authors use time series data on investments and rents on exhaustible resource extraction for 70 countries to answer this question. The res...

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Main Authors: Hamilton, Kirk, Ruta, Giovanni, Tajibaeva, Liaila
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/5595789/capital-accumulation-resources-depletion-hartwick-rule-counterfactual
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8896