MMIJ Annual Meeting 2016
Mar 28 - Mar 30, 2016The University of Tokyo
MMIJ Annual Meeting 2016
Mar 28 - Mar 30, 2016The University of Tokyo
[1411]Economic Growth and mineral resource abundance; Case of Botswana
○Koitsiwe Kegomoditswe1, Adachi Tsuyoshi1(1.秋田大学)
司会:村上進亮(東京大学)
The oddity of resource scarce economies performing better than resource endowed economies has attracted much attention in economic history. This paper explores the relationship between mineral resource wealth and economic growth from 1967-2011 in Botswana. Other economic determinants such trade policy, government efficiency, investment and income inequality are used as control variables to examine if the relationship between mineral endowments and economic growth hold. Possible pathways for the relationship will be explored using linear regression and non-linear method.