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The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations

Michael L. Ross · Princeton University Press · 2012

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Michael L. Ross
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DOI 10.1515/9781400841929
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2026-09-01

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TheoryRoss's 2015 review concludes that there is robust evidence that petroleum wealth tends to make authoritarian regimes more durable, to increase certain types of corruption and to help trigger violent conflict in low- and middle-income countries.TheoryIn The Oil Curse (2012), Ross attributes the harmful political effects of petroleum wealth to the unusual size, source, stability and secrecy of oil revenues.DisputedBohr argues that Turkmenistan is a petro-authoritarian state whose hydrocarbon export revenue funds the security services and patronage networks that sustain the regime; cross-national studies dispute whether resource wealth generally causes authoritarianism.