Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57624 
Year of Publication: 
2010
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WTO Staff Working Paper No. ERSD-2010-01
Publisher: 
World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva
Abstract: 
This paper provides a review of current thinking on the economics of international trade in mineral resources. I first define what is meant by trade in mineral resources. I then discuss patterns of trade in mineral resources. The paper then moves on to the five topics requested by the World Trade Organization: theoretical and empirical literature on international trade in minerals; trade impacts of mineral abundance and the resource curse; the political economy of mineral trade in resource-abundant states; non-economic considerations associated with strategic mineral resources; and the impact of domestic market structure and regulation on production and trade in minerals.
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Working Paper

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