Multidimensional evaluation of countries' performance in resource curse vulnerability (renewable and non-renewable)

Energy is an essential factor in overall efforts to achieve sustainable development. Countries striving to this end are seeking to reassess their energy systems with a view toward planning energy programmes and strategies in line with sustainable development goals and objectives.This study aims to construct a composite index for measuring the vulnerability to resource curse in selected resource-rich countries through an analysis of the diverse factors, ranging from economic to governmental, social and political, that affect the resource curse phenomenon and its impacts. The (RCVI) is based on ۹ sub-indicators, namely government effectiveness, voice and accountability, political stability, rule of law, natural resources rent, GDP growth, human development level, transparency level and state fragility index. These results point to a clustering of the countries: A number of countries can be identified as low-RCVI countries that are principally not vulnerable to the resource curse.

کلیدواژه ها:

Vulnerability ، Resource curse ، Renewable ، Natural resources.