Sonika Sharma
Email: 20dse002@smvdu.ac.in
Sonika Sharma is a Ph.D. Scholar in Economics at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra. Her research interests include natural resource economics, economic development and applied panel data econometrics. She has published in peer-reviewed international journals and actively participates in academic conferences and research seminars. Her research aims to contribute to policy-relevant debates in development and resource economics. She is a recipient of the prestigious ICSSR Research Fellowship through the Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Hyderabad, in recognition of her research on contemporary environmental and development issues during her doctoral studies. She has also qualified several national-level competitive examinations in India, reflecting her academic achievements.
Papers Published in World Economics:
Do Countries Always Remain in the State of Resource Curse or Resource Blessing?
This paper investigates the linkage between natural resources and economic growth, in light of the Resource Curse-Resource Blessing debate, by considering financial development and trade openness as additional determinants for G20 nations. As a novelty, the study uses Autoregressive Distributive Lag Model on a quadratic specification to test whether countries remain in state of resource curse (resource blessing) or make a transition to resource blessing (resource curse) state. The empirical results reveal that countries, except Brazil and Saudi Arabia, shift from resource blessed states to resource curse states. Indonesia monotonically experiences resource curse. Financial development and trade openness also contribute positively to economic growth.
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