Escaping the resource curse: The case of Indonesia
Escaping the resource curse: The case of Indonesia
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摆脱资源诅咒：印度尼西亚的案例
DOI：
10.1080/00472330601104557
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
A. Rosser
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作者：
A. Rosser
摘要大量研究表明，丰富的自然资源不利于发展。在这方面，印度尼西亚在1970年代和1980年代的迅速增长似乎是引人注目的。为什么印度尼西亚能够强劲增长，其经验对其他资源丰富的国家有什么影响？我认为，它的快速增长不仅仅是一个问题的政策精英作出合理的经济政策选择，而是反映了两个更基本的因素：（一）在20世纪60年代的印尼激进的民族主义和共产主义社会力量的反革命社会力量的政治胜利;（二）该国的战略冷战位置和接近日本。因此，其经验的主要含义是，资源丰富的国家要改善经济业绩，就必须改变权力和利益结构，并出现为增长提供机会的外部政治和经济条件。
Abstract Numerous studies have suggested that natural resource abundance is bad for development. In this context, Indonesia's rapid growth during the 1970s and 1980s seems remarkable. Why was Indonesia able to grow strongly and what are the implications of its experience for other resource abundant countries? I argue that its rapid growth was not simply a matter of policy elites making rational economic policy choices, but rather reflected two more fundamental factors: (i) the political victory of counter-revolutionary social forces over radical nationalist and communist social forces in Indonesia during the 1960s; and (ii) the country's strategic Cold War location and proximity to Japan. Accordingly, the main implication of its experience is that improved economic performance in resource abundant countries requires shifts in structures of power and interest and the emergence of external political and economic conditions that provide opportunities for growth.