Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232946 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 21-032
Publisher: 
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
Abstract: 
We study the economic implications of mineral resource activity for non-mining regions at the grid-level across the African continent. We find that capital cities benefit from mineral resource activity anywhere in the country. Leaders' birth regions also benefit, but only in autocratic regimes. Generic non-mining regions, on the other hand, are worse off. These results suggest that regional redistribution of resource rents in Africa is primarily undertaken to the benefit of capital cities and leaders' birth regions. In contrast, non-mining regions do not appear to be sufficiently compensated for the negative spillovers they may face due to mining activity elsewhere in the country.
Subjects: 
Mineral resources
spillovers
spatiality
luminosity
favoritism
democracy
Africa
JEL: 
H77
O13
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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