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by Alexander Cooley Oil wealth is a mixed blessing for developing countries. While it floods a state’s budgetary coffers with revenues, it also promotes the formation of state-dominated institutions that are antithetical to both economic and political liberalization. These patrimonial and distributive policies are difficult to change, even when a decline in oil income creates […]