Abstract
In order to analyse whether there is “Resource curse” in coal resource-rich district of Inner Mongolia such as Xilinguole, Hulunbeier, Tongliao, Chifeng, Erdos and Wuhai during “Golden ten years” (form 2000 to 2011) of coal, we developed the regression model based on the panel data of coal development intensity, manufacturing investment level, R&D and education investment level and foreign investment level, and test the “resource curse” effect in a holistic and regional way. The results showed that there exist “Resource curse” effect in Inner Mongolia along with economic development, and the effect gradually enhance. Meanwhile, the most serious “Resource curse” exist in Xilinguole, Hulunbeier, Erdos. The most important ways to weaken the “Resource curse” is industrial diversification and technological innovation. In addition, the basic way to solve or avoid “Resource curse” is strengthening the system construction, improving the government’s measures and policies on management and utilization of natural resources.
Highlights
Inner Mongolia autonomous region has a vast territory and abundant coal resources, and the coal resources have been identified to break the trillion ton mark, ranking first in China
"resource curse" received widespread attention of Chinese scholars [3], Liu jia (2009) [4] used the method of co-integration analysis and granger causality test to analyse the relationship between coal consumption and economic growth based on the data of Inner Mongolia autonomous region from 1986 to 2007, the inspection results showed that the economic development of Inner Mongolia autonomous region existed the resource curse
When variables describing institutional conditions with the level of foreign investment are introduced into the model, it can be seen from the results in column 3 of table 4 that foreign investment is positively correlated with economic growth at the significant level of 10%, while the coefficient of coal mining intensity is still negative at the significant level of 5%.The data in column 4 and 5 of table 4 show that science and technology input and education input has a promoting effect on economic growth, but the effect of the former is more significant, while the positive influence of the latter on the economy is not significant
Summary
Inner Mongolia autonomous region has a vast territory and abundant coal resources, and the coal resources have been identified to break the trillion ton mark, ranking first in China. The concept of "Resource Curse" was put forward by Auty [2] in 1993 when he studied the economic development of mining countries. He found that abundant resources were not sufficient favourable conditions for the economic growth of some countries, but a restriction. The phenomenon of "resource curse" received widespread attention of Chinese scholars [3], Liu jia (2009) [4] used the method of co-integration analysis and granger causality test to analyse the relationship between coal consumption and economic growth based on the data of Inner Mongolia autonomous region from 1986 to 2007, the inspection results showed that the economic development of Inner Mongolia autonomous region existed the resource curse. Chen jiping [6] used the shift-share method to decompose and compare the labour productivity of Inner Mongolia, western China and the whole country since the opening up of the western region, and found that Inner Mongolia had the potential problem of resource curse
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