The Impact of Natural Resource Discoveries in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Closer Look at the Case of Bolivia

February 10, 2017

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Frederik G Toscani. The Impact of Natural Resource Discoveries in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Closer Look at the Case of Bolivia, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper studies the impact of natural resource extraction in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) from a number of angles. First, we exploit a novel dataset on the universe of giant oil and gas discoveries in the region to trace out the cyclical response of macroeconomic variables to discoveries over the short- and medium-run. Second, we use non-stationary panel data techniques to look at the long-run (trend) relationship between GDP per capita and the value of oil and gas production—our results imply that the recent fall in prices could depress GDP per capita by several percentage points. Last, we use Bolivia, which discovered huge gas reserves in the late 1990s, as a case study to apply the cross-country results and to study the impact of discoveries at the subnational level.

Subject: Commodities, Economic sectors, Employment, Environment, Labor, Mining sector, Natural resources, Oil, Oil production, Production

Keywords: Bolivia, Caribbean, Discoveries, Economic Growth, Employment, Gas production, Hydrocarbon production, Hydrocarbon revenue, Labor intensity, Mining sector, Natural resource, Natural resource wealth, Natural Resources, Oil, Oil production, Poverty, Production start, Resource discovery, Value, Value of oil, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

35
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2017/027
Stock No:

WPIEA2017027
ISBN:

9781475577570
ISSN:

1018-5941

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