Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan African Countries?

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Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan African Countries? is written by Munseob Lee and published by International Monetary Fund. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1484336399 (ISBN 10) and 9781484336397 (ISBN 13).

We examine the impact of resource windfall on the standard of living both in the short-run and long-run, using a sample of 130 countries, 1963-2007. Then, we systematically investigate the effect of resource windfall on welfare in three different groups of countries: We find that in the short-run resource windfall is welfare enhancing in the whole sample, especially via increases in income and decreases in inequality. However, in SSA countries, the size of welfare improvement is small and it is smaller and almost zero after one year in fragile Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. In the whole sample, a resource windfall shock leads to significant welfare growth even in the long-run, but we couldn’t find any significant long-run effect of resource windfall in SSA countries.