Mining; Mining areas; public goods; Resource boom; sub-Saharan Africa
Résumé :
[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. Our estimations indicate that people living in mining regions have a sense of structural disadvantage in terms of the provision of public goods; however, this perception is pro-cyclical in the presence of revenue booms/busts. Our results hold even after taking into account the possible endogeneity of our measure of resource revenue.
Disciplines :
Systèmes économiques & économie publique
Auteur, co-auteur :
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)
Co-auteurs externes :
no
Langue du document :
Anglais
Titre :
Mining revenues and quality of public goods in sub-Saharan Africa
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