Does economic complexity provide antidotal pathways to evade the resource curse syndrome? A novel role for institutions
Journal: Sustainable Development
Year: 2024

Abstract This study offers the first empirical attempt to examine the role of institutional quality in influencing the contribution of economic complexity to evading resource curses and reducing resource dependency in resource‐rich countries. We analyze data from 20 resource‐rich African countries covering the years 1995–2021, using fully modified ordinary least squares, a Driscoll–Kraay nonparametric covariance matrix, and the method of moments‐quantile regression. These countries predominantly