01977cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002481 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451856064 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Subramanian, Arvind. Addressing the Natural Resource Curse : An Illustration From Nigeria / Arvind Subramanian, Xavier Sala-i-Martin. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003. 1 online resource (47 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Some natural resources-oil and minerals in particular-exert a negative and nonlinear impact on growth via their deleterious impact on institutional quality. We show this result to be very robust. The Nigerian experience provides telling confirmation of this aspect of natural resources. Waste and poor institutional quality stemming from oil appear to have been primarily responsible for Nigeria's poor long-run economic performance. We propose a solution for addressing this resource curse which involves directly distributing the oil revenues to the public. Even with all the difficulties that will no doubt plague its actual implementation, our proposal will, at the least, be vastly superior to the status quo. At best, however, it could fundamentally improve the quality of public institutions and, as a result, durably raise long-run growth performance. Mode of access: Internet Sala-i-Martin, Xavier. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/139 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2003/139/001.2003.issue-139-en.xml IMF e-Library