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The paper studies the management of natural resource rents on the economic growth of natural resource abundant countries. A major policy of many of these countries has been the use of oil revenues to subsidize the non-oil private sector in order to diversify away from oil depend…

The purpose of this dissertation is to provide insight into the determinants of sustained economic performance in the global economy, using the co-evolution of Germany's and Turkey's apparel industries as key cases. Germany is the second-largest apparel importer in the world. Tu…

This dissertation examines the effects of diversity and tolerance (or lack thereof) on economic outcomes. The dissertation starts by arguing that religious diversity combined with institutionalized tolerance to create an environment conducive to the scientific and technological …