Do Energy Resource Curse and Heterogeneous Curse Exist in Provinces? Evidence from China

Hu, Hui; Ran, Weijun; Wei, Yunrong; Li, Xiang

doi:10.3390/en13174383

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“…Scholars who hold the view of the "resource curse" posit that abundant natural resources are a curse but not a driver of economic development [10,11]. Their reasons can be summarized in three aspects: the squeezing effect, deteriorating trade terms, and the weakening of the political system.…”

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Resource Endowment, Industrial Structure, and Green Development of the Yellow River Basin

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The Yellow River Basin is an important energy base of China, and its green development is crucial to Chinese economic transformation. In this paper, we calculate the green total factor productivity (GTFP) to measure the green development level of the Yellow River Basin by using an Slack Based Model- Global Malmquist-Luenberger (SBM-GML) index model. On this basis, we use a Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) model to further analyze the impact of resource endowment and industrial structure on the green development of cities. The results show that resource endowment inhibits the green development of cities and that the resource curse is observed in the Yellow River Basin. The industrial structure advancement significantly promotes the green development of cities. The impact of industrial structure rationalization on green development varies significantly on the type of city. Specifically, it has an inhibiting effect on key environmental protection cities but a promoting effect on non-key environmental protection cities.

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“…The results are supported by Hu et al (2020), who demonstrated that the resource curse in the Chinese province of Xinjiang is caused mainly by the dependence on energy resources of about 63% and 37% by other transmission channels such as education, level of nationalisation and investment.…”

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“…Government of such a country invests more in national security (Military) and exclusively supports its ethnic group to protect its interests in the resource-rich geographic region (Ross, 2001). Hu et al (2020) found that fixed-asset investment is negatively correlated with energy resources in six provinces of China and positive with economic growth. Thus, confirming the transmission channel through the productive expenditure channel.…”

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Natural Resource Rents and Economic Growth Paradox, the Analysis of Resource Curse and Its Transmission Channels in West Africa: The Role of Public Expenditure Policy

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2022

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The study analyses the natural resource curse through the component of public expenditure policy, namely productive and unproductive expenditures, as plausible channels transmitting the resource curse in West Africa. The study examines which channel is the most prominent transmitter among public expenditure, Dutch disease, rent-seeking, and political institutions. A dynamic panel was adopted for the 1998-2018 period using Feasible Generalised Least Squares (FGLS) and Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS) estimation techniques. The results confirmed the resource curse hypothesis in West Africa via productive expenditure and rent-seeking behaviour as the only relevant transmission channels. Moreover, productive expenditure interacting with natural resource rents mitigates the resource curse and can reverse it under a certain threshold. On the other hand, unproductive expenditure through government consumption expenditure exacerbates the resource curse. The findings suggest that appropriate productive expenditure policy measures in terms of fixed capital formation, and a diligent fight against corruption can overturn the resource curse over time.

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“…Based on extant study in the literature of resource curse ( Atkinson and Hamilton, 2003 ; Fleming et al, 2015 ; Perez-Sebastian and Raveh, 2016 ; Corrocher et al, 2020 ; Hu et al, 2020 ), this study constructs an empirical model of the influence factors of the cultural industries, which covering cultural resources, and empirically examines the influence effect of cultural resources on the cultural industries by region. In this model, the added value of the cultural industries is taken as the explained variable, cultural resources as the core explanatory variable, and control variables covering cultural industries input factors, cultural institutional mechanism factors, and economic environmental factors.…”

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Does cultural resource endowment backfire? Evidence from China’s cultural resource curse

2023

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Resource curse theory suggests that regions rich in natural resource endowments accumulate adverse economic competitive, but few studies have focused on causes and mechanisms of cultural resource curses. Since the development of the cultural industries is relatively backward in some regions with rich cultural resources in central and western China. Combined with the theory of cultural resources and the resource curse, we build cultural resource endowment and cultural resource curse coefficients and measure the distribution of cultural resource curses based on the dataset of 29 provinces in China covering 2000−2019. The results show that there is a serious cultural resource curse in western China. The causes of the cultural resource curse are multiple, place attachment and cultural field can influence cultural behaviors, and the environmental impact of industrial ecosystems causes path dependence in cultural resource exploration and cultural industry development. We further empirically tested the influence of cultural resources on cultural industries in different sub-regions of China and the transmission mechanism of the curse of cultural resources in western China. The results show that the influence of cultural resources on the cultural industries is not significant in the overall of China, but it is significantly negative in western China. The resource-dependent model of cultural industries development in western China has attracted more primary labor and crowded out government spending on education. Moreover, it hinders the upgrading of human resources and inhibits the modern innovative development of the cultural industries. This is an important reason for the curse of cultural resources in the development of cultural industries in western China.

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Do Energy Resource Curse and Heterogeneous Curse Exist in Provinces? Evidence from China

Cited by 11 publications

References 73 publications

Resource Endowment, Industrial Structure, and Green Development of the Yellow River Basin

Resource Endowment, Industrial Structure, and Green Development of the Yellow River Basin

Natural Resource Rents and Economic Growth Paradox, the Analysis of Resource Curse and Its Transmission Channels in West Africa: The Role of Public Expenditure Policy

Does cultural resource endowment backfire? Evidence from China’s cultural resource curse

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