IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/sopchp/978-0-230-37091-3_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Institutional Change and State Capacity in Mineral-Rich Countries

In: Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy

Author

Listed:
  • Evelyn Dietsche

Abstract

It is a widely held belief that countries will benefit from exploiting fuel and non-fuel mineral resources if they have ‘good institutions’, or at least if they are willing to build good institutions (Humphreys, Sachs and Stiglitz 2007). However, there is no shared definition regarding what good institutions actually are. The typical characteristics to which proponents have pointed include stable contracts, rule of law, electoral competition, no corruption and transparency in the management of resource revenue. Policy advisors have welcomed the focus on good institutions, because it has helped them to counter the hypothesis of the resource curse, which suggests that there is an inevitable negative relationship between mineral resources and development. Mineral-rich countries can use good institutions as a prophylaxis and a cure, just like travellers can use malaria tablets.

Suggested Citation

  • Evelyn Dietsche, 2012. "Institutional Change and State Capacity in Mineral-Rich Countries," Social Policy in a Development Context, in: Katja Hujo (ed.), Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy, chapter 5, pages 122-152, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-0-230-37091-3_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230370913_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-0-230-37091-3_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.