This paper examines how the dismantling of coercive institutions associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 affected the distribution of rents from natural resource exports. It identifies the interplay between coercive institutions and natural resource rents as an important driver of local development. Using data from the 1996 census, the paper documents large income gaps between communities located just-inside and just-outside the...
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2016/02/22
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政策研究报告
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WPS7572
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1
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2016/02/22
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Disclosed
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Resource rents, coercion, and local development : evidence from post-apartheid South Africa
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logarithm of real per capita