01876cas a2200325 a 4500 AALejournalIMF005198 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451870282 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Thornton, John. Natural Resource Endowments, Governance, and the Domestic Revenue Effort : Evidence from a Panel of Countries / John Thornton, Fabian Bornhorst, Sanjeev Gupta. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008. 1 online resource (10 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 The recent development literature stresses that countries that receive large revenues from natural resource endowments typically raise less revenue from domestic taxation, and that this creates governance problems because the lower domestic tax effort reduces the incentive for the public scrutiny of government. Our results from a panel of 30 hydrocarbon producing countries indicate that the offset between hydrocarbon revenues and revenues from other domestic sources is about 20 percent but that it is invariant to governance indicators. Mode of access: Internet GDP imf Hydrocarbon Revenue imf Revenue imf WP imf Kuwait imf Bornhorst, Fabian. Gupta, Sanjeev. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/170 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2008/170/001.2008.issue-170-en.xml IMF e-Library