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As a fundamental factor driving economic growth, natural capital plays a key role in sustainable development. This paper incorporates various economic growth proxy variables into the MRW model and uses the BMA method to tackle the uncertainty issue of the model. Based on China's provincial-level panel data, this paper examines the impact of renewable natural capital and non-renewable natural capital on the country's economic growth and then carries out multiple mechanism analysis with the CART algorithm. The main findings are: 1 Natural capital has a significant deep impact on China's economic growth in models incorporating proximate and fundamental theories, and the direction of natural capital's impact varies with proxy indicators, which shows a significant 'Curse' effect of dependence and a 'Blessing' effect of abundance. This panoramic perspective can reconcile the serious disagreement on 'Resource Curse' among the literature. 2 The effects of renewable natural capital are in line with the 'Resource neutral' hypothesis, while nonrenewable natural capital has a stronger impact on economic growth in terms of both the 'Curse' effect of dependence and the 'Blessing' effect of abundance, and the overall effect on economic growth depends on patterns of resource use. 3 Under high physical capital accumulation, natural capital has a more fundamental impact on economic growth, and the 'Blessing' effect of abundance has been significantly enhanced. Based on their resource endowments and economic development levels, all provinces should reinvest natural resource rents in national wealth to mitigate the 'Resource Curse' through effective protection of natural capital and compensation from reinvestment. This is a reasonable way to embark on a win-win sustainable development path of economic development and ecological civilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rational construction of the central-local distribution mechanism of natural resource assets income has a positive effect on rationalizing the relationship between the central and local natural resource assets income bodies, realizing the rights and interests of natural resource owners, enhancing the ecological compensation capacity of the natural resource development regions, and contributing to the growth in the scale and scientific utilization of natural resource assets income at the central and local levels. In the current system, the implementation of the central-local distribution mechanism of natural resource assets income is based on the central-local decentralized natural resource asset management framework and presents a regulatory structure in which local income is dominant. Under this regulatory structure, on the one hand, the natural resource governance authority and natural resource management responsibilities after the central-local decentralization cannot be connected with the central-local income distribution results, resulting in an imbalance of central-local natural resource asset management rights, responsibilities, and benefits. On the other hand, it also restricts the national macroeconomic regulation ability of natural resource assets income, leads to a lack of national ownership income, and increases the risk of regional 'resource curse' economic growth and uneven allocation of resource returns among regions. The income central-local allocation mechanism needs to be constructed in a standardized manner, aiming to achieve a balance of power, responsibility, and interests in the management of central-local natural resource assets through income distribution. In terms of pathways, we should start with the optimization and adjustment of the relationship between the central and local authorities in the management of natural resource assets, establish a mechanism for the central government to dominate and control the natural resource assets income, and set up a mechanism for the flexible income management of the central and local authorities based on the division of authorities. We should also ensure that the natural resource assets income is distributed between central and local authorities in an orderly and efficient manner, and this should be achieved by implementing a mechanism for the integration of central and local authorities and responsibilities, a mechanism for flexible division of authorities and responsibilities, a mechanism for flexible retention of the income by localities, a mechanism for horizontal and vertical flow of income between the central and local authorities, and a mechanism for scientific management of locally retained income. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trapped by the 'resource curse,' how traditional resource-based cities can achieve high-quality development while driving forward the green growth transition has become an important issue of concern to academic and political circles. This study took the Chinese central government's energy conservation and emission reduction target assessment policy as an entry point to explore the underlying mechanisms and economic consequences of green performance assessment on the green transformation development of resourcebased cities. Based on the theoretical analysis, using the urban panel data from 2006 to 2020, this study calculated the intensity of green performance assessment with the compositive index method, and constructed the indicators for measuring green economic growth by using the direction SBM distance function model. Then, the study empirically analyzed the impact of the green performance assessment on the green economic growth of resource-based cities by using the two-way fixed effect model and instrumental variable regression. The results showed that: ① Local-government green performance assessment significantly promoted green economic growth in resource-based cities, and this conclusion still held after a series of robustness tests, including replacing the independent variable and excluding other policy interference. ② The green performance assessment mainly realized the promotion of green economic growth through three pathways, namely, regional green technological innovation, industrial structure cleaning, and resource allocation optimization. ③ Heterogeneity analysis indicated that in regions with stronger promotion incentives for local officials and lower dependence on local state-owned enterprises, the policy effect was more pronounced. Simultaneously, in mature and exhausted resource-based cities, cities with coal and metal as dominant endowments, the policy was even more effective. In contrast to most previous studies focusing on strategies for breaking the 'resource curse' around resource management, this study reveals that an appropriate target-based performance assessment system can also effectively curb the 'curse'. This study not only provides a basis for decision-making on the green transformation and sustainable development of resource-based cities, but also supplements new empirical evidence to the literature on the govenance of the 'resource curse'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Promoting the industrial transformation and upgrading of resource-based cities is an important condition for solving the dilemma of widening economic development differences and serious destruction of ecological resources between regions, and to achieve regional coordinated development strategy. From the new perspective of factor mismatch, this article discussed the economic transformation of resource-based cities. In theory, a growth model describing the factor input of resource-based cities was constructed, and the influence mechanism of factor mismatch on urban output efficiency, environmental efficiency and energy efficiency was investigated. In the empirical aspect, based on the panel data from 2005 to 2018 and using the improved Directional Distance Function (DDF), this article calculated the transformation efficiency of 114 resource-based cities in China from the five dimensions of labor, capital and energy input, expected output and non-expected output, and then tested the exact impact of factor mismatch on the transformation of resource-based cities. The results showed that whether it was over-allocation or under-allocation, factor mismatch had a significant inhibitory effect on the economic transformation efficiency of resource-based cities, and the inhibitory effect of labor mismatch was particularly obvious; after dealing with endogenous problems, changing analysis samples, replacing explained variables, and changing regression methods, the research conclusions still had strong robustness. Transformation efficiency was further decomposed in the three directions of output growth, energy consumption and environmental friendliness. It was found that the mismatch of various factors would hinder the improvement of energy efficiency and environmental efficiency, but different from labor mismatch and energy mismatch, the negative impact of capital mismatch on output efficiency was insignificant. According to the classification of resource-based cities in different geographical regions, it was found that the impact of factor mismatch on transformation efficiency would be significantly different in different geographic regions. Based on the problems in the transformation of resource-based cities, this article puts forward policy suggestions from the three levels of country, city and industry, and emphasizes the importance of improving the allocation efficiency of labor factor. This paper not only provides a new insight into the explanation of the transformation dilemma faced by resource-based cities, but also provides useful reference for strategy formulation and policy adjustment to promote the high-quality development of resource-based cities in the new era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background--Livelihood activities of workers households in key state-owned forest regions are closely related to forests. Due to the existence of the resource curse, families with high dependence on forest resources are often still poor in this area. ⑵ Methods--Based on 2198 survey data, according to absolute forest income and relative forest income, the types of livelihood strategies of worker households are divided. Based on the sustainable livelihood analysis framework, the capital evaluation index system of worker household livelihood in key state-owned forest regions is constructed. Logistic regression model is used to analyze the key factors affecting the transformation of livelihood strategies of workers households. ⑶ Results--The forestry-related livelihood strategies of workers household in key state-owned forest regions can be divided into four types, namely, forestry advantage type, forestry supplement type, forestry dependence type and livelihood diversification type, accounting for 28. 8%, 7. 89%, 21. 89 % and 41. 34%, respectively. From the perspective of income level, the family income level of forestry-dependent workers is the worst, the income level of forestry supplementary workers is the highest. From the perspective of the level of livelihood capital, forestry complementary worker household have the highest natural capital, material capital, financial capital and social capital. In terms of forestry dependent type, worker households with higher natural capital, physical capital, human capital and financial capital tend to choose forestry supplementary livelihood strategy, and only those with higher human capital tend to choose forestry advantage livelihood strategy. Taking livelihood diversification as a reference, worker households with higher levels of natural capital and human capital are more likely to transform into forestry complementary type, while worker households with higher levels of physical capital, financial capital, human capital and social capital are more likely to transform into forestry dominant type. ⑷ Conclusions and Discussions--The income and livelihood capital levels of different livelihood strategies show a decreasing trend with the increase of forest dependence. The transformation of livelihood strategies of worker household is affected by their livelihood capital, family demographic characteristics and residence characteristics. The transformation of worker households from forestry dependence to forestry supplement needs to improve their livelihood capital levels and optimize their structure. In key state-owned forest areas, when worker households can obtain the capital and material information needed for production, make full use of natural resources such as forest land to develop production and operation activities, improve their employment skills and management skills, enrich and make good use of social network relations, and actively seek non-forest employment channels, the income of worker households obtained by using forest is improved and the degree of forest dependence is reduced, so as to realize the transformation of their livelihood strategy types and the sustainable development of livelihood. It is therefore recommended that: ①Workers can make full use of forest land resources, rich forestry employment content. ②Governments are expected to build a platform to promote the flow of physical capital and make physical capital play a better role. ③Companies should provide diversified vocational and technical training to improve the employment skills and business skills of workers. ④It is necessary for governments to encourage worker households to engage in non-forest employment and promote diversified livelihood development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on China’s national innovation-driven strategy, green technological innovation is an important means to alleviate economic -environmental contradictions. This paper builds on three-dimensional framework of market institution technology based on the theory of‘ asymmetric innovation’ and deconstructs it into five subdivision indicators of marketization, environmental regulation, government funding, R&D capital investment, and R&D personnel investment. Using a combination of QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) and NCA (Necessary Condition Analysis), from a configuration perspective, this research focuses on the regional differences, key driving factors, and realization paths of China’s green technology innovation. The analysis shows that: ① The distribution of China’s green technological innovation presents obvious regional differences and concentrated radiation effects. The level of green technological innovation decreases from the eastern coast, the southern coast, the northern coast, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the southwest, the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the northeast, to the northwest comprehensive economic zone. The concentrated radiation effect in coastal areas is significant. ② The NCA method shows that the marketization process, environmental regulations, government funding, R&D capital investment and R&D personnel investment are all necessary conditions (insufficient) for achieving green technological innovation at a level of 20% and above. The necessity of R&D capital investment, marketization process and R&D personnel investment is more obvious. The QCA necessary condition analysis shows that R&D capital investment is the necessary condition for achieving green technological innovation, and there is no necessary condition for non-green technological innovation. The QCA necessary condition analysis result is a subset of the NCA result, and the conclusions of the two methods are complementary. ③ The QCA configuration analysis shows that there are two paths to achieve high-level green technological innovation, namely, a market-driven path led by the technological investment and a free and open type led by technological investment. There are two paths leading to non-high-level green technological innovation, namely the multi-factor scarce path and the resource curse type under market constraints path. This research enriches the theory of technological innovation, highlights the Chinese context of asymmetric innovation, and provides policy recommendations to regional governments for more innovative incentives and optimizations and the discovery of feasible paths of green technological innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since Ross (2008) explored whether or not the status of women in the Middle East and North African region is affected by oil on the basis of the "resource curse" thesis, scholars have extended this link into a variety of discussions. Consensus, however, is far from conclusive. This paper argues that natural resources also affect female education and health rights. The author proposes that natural resources discourage political leaders from investing in human capital of women. Additionally, they also lack strong incentives to diversify the resource-based economy. These factors account for why women's education and health outcomes are limited in resource-rich states. To lend empirical support, the author applies natural resource data of 126-164 states between 1960 and 2017. Empirical results not only support the arguments as mentioned, but also provide policy implications and theoretical contributions to the status of women in resource-rich states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Set social capital and technology innovation endogenous, we construct a four-sector endogenous economic growth model, by which we analyze the mechanism how social capital and technology innovation promote economic growth. We conclude that social capital accelerates self-accumulation, leading more labor flow into the technology innovation department, encouraging technology innovation, weakening the crowding-out effect on technology innovation resulting from resource development, cutting off the pathway of the resource curse, fundamentally social capital become the key to break the resource curse. Further, constructing social capital index with government agencies quality and information communication and sharing, using Chinese provincial panel data between 1998-2013, we find that:1) social capital has positive effect on technology innovation and economic growth; 2) with the cross-effect of social capital and technology innovation introduced, the turning point of inverted U curve of resource and economy gradually goes back, confirming the existence of endogenous mechanism that social capital helps to break the resource curse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through comparative analysis of financial livelihood expenditure about three resource areas including Shanxi, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia, the result shows there are different degrees of imbalance between resource development and improvement of people's livelihood in the three provinces. During the study period, the livelihood of the people spending development of three provinces also has an obvious difference: financial livelihood expenditure proportion of Shanxi is the highest, Shaanxi is the second and Inner Mongolia is the lowest. In recent years, Inner Mongolia achieves remarkable economic growth with the obvious ascension of resources development strength, but this does not improve the people's livelihood. It shows a "resource curse" risk of people's livelihood significance in Inner Mongolia. In conclusion, the governments of resource provinces should take more responsibility in the basic education, basic medical care, social security and other public services to improve the livelihood of the people and correct the imbalance between resource economic growth and improving people's livelihood. The governments should modestly increase financial livelihood expenditure to improve manpower capital accumulating, forming a good basis for long-term economic growth, to avoid "resource curse" effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rational use of natural resources is an unavoidable problem in the process of industrialization of many countries. Since the resource and environmental constraints are increasingly tightened, examining the relationship between natural resources and economic growth is of great significance. Natural resources' direct effect and indirect effects on economic growth are different, because of the uneven distribution of resources and the differences in economic growth performance among regions in China Natural resources' effect on regional economic growth has also undergone a significant change, especially before and after the implementation of National Regional Development Strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]