Oil and Democracy in Cuba: Going Towards Nigeria or Norway?*
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There is an economic natural resource curse as well as a political natural resource curse. The economic literature identifies certain characteristics of countries that are likely to fall victims to the former curse. ent literature on the y to explore the question In this essay we draw on these characteristics, rec political natural resource curse and Cuba’s histor of how likely is Cuba to fall victim to both curses. *Paper presented at the XXII Annual Meetings of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. I would like to thank Roberto Orro, the discussant of the paper, for his comments.
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