Mining revenues and quality of public goods in sub‐Saharan Africa

Author:

Bertinelli Luisito1ORCID,Bourgain Arnaud1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Economics and Management University of Luxembourg Esch‐sur‐Alzette Luxembourg

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper, we investigate the impact of public mining revenues on perception indicators of public goods quality in five mining countries that have recently experienced a boom in their government revenues: Burkina Faso, Ghana, D.R. Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. The effect of the tax revenue boom is identified using a difference‐in‐differences estimation. Our estimations indicate that people living in mining regions have a sense of structural disadvantage in terms of the provision of public goods; however, this perception is pro‐cyclical in the presence of revenue booms/busts. Our results hold even after taking into account the possible endogeneity of our measure of resource revenue.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Development,Geography, Planning and Development

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