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Mining Boom, Economic Growth and Sustainable Development in Democratic Republic of the Congo

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  • Murhula K., Pacifique
  • Achiza N., Alain

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This paper intends to analyze the relationship between mining boom and economic growth and on the other hand the relationship between mining boom and sustainable development in a country potentially furnished of various mineral resources, the DRCongo. To achieve these two goals, we estimate an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model on Congolese data from 2005 to 2018 for two main equations respectively. From estimations, our findings show that the mineral rent, taken as mining boom proxy negatively impacts on GDP per capita as well as in the long and short run implicating a non-inclusive growth stemming from mining sector. On the other hand, mining boom has a significant and negative effect on sustainable development with a coefficient value of -3.18 and -1 at the long and short run respectively) and this impact is more marked in the long term. This is because a unit of mineral resources exploited today is no longer available for future generations; which reduces their right to enjoy the resources that the country once had. Otherwise, Adjusted Net Saving has been find negative between 2005 and 2018 with an average of -10,16% revealing that the DRCongo is not sustainable.

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  • Murhula K., Pacifique & Achiza N., Alain, 2021. "Mining Boom, Economic Growth and Sustainable Development in Democratic Republic of the Congo," MPRA Paper 113330, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 11 Jun 2022.
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    Keywords

    Mining boom; Resource curse; Economic growth; Sustainable development; Governance; ARDL Model;
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    JEL classification:

    • C3 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables
    • G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q33 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Resource Booms (Dutch Disease)
    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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