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Impact of mining boom on the quality of public goods in Sub-Saharan Africa
BERTINELLI, Luisito; BOURGAIN, Arnaud
2021
 

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Keywords :
mining; resource boom; mining areas; public goods; Sub-Saharan Africa
Abstract :
[en] In this paper, we investigate the impact of public mining revenues on perception indicators of public goods quality in five mining countries that have recently experienced a boom in their government revenues: Burkina Faso, Ghana, D.R. Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia. The effect of the tax revenue boom is identified using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy. Our estimations indicate that people living in mining regions as having a sense of structural disadvantage in terms of the provision of public goods; however, this perception is pro-cyclical in the presence of resource booms/busts. Our results hold even after taking account of the possible endogeneity of our measure of resource revenue.
Disciplines :
Economic systems & public economics
Author, co-author :
BERTINELLI, Luisito ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Department of Economics and Management (DEM)
BOURGAIN, Arnaud ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Department of Economics and Management (DEM)
Language :
English
Title :
Impact of mining boom on the quality of public goods in Sub-Saharan Africa
Publication date :
September 2021
Version :
1
Number of pages :
16
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