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Appendix A

Table 5 Economic performance of selected countries

Source: own calculations using data from World Bank [37], World Development Indicators (2019).

Appendix B

Table 6 Share of natural capital in export and GDP

Source: own calculations using data from UN Comtrade [8] and World Bank (2019) [37].

Appendix C

Table 7 Nigeria: Diversification of economy (value added in sectors as % of GDP)

Source: World Bank [37], World Development Indicators (data for 2018 not available).

Appendix D

Fig. 9. Mexico: Response of the budget to the change in price of gold

Note: data on budget balance in 2017 and 2018 are not available on OECD.

Source: own construction using data on price of gold (Goldprice, 2019) [38] and budget balance (OECD, 2019) [32].

Appendix E

Table 8

Mexico: Diversification of economy (value added in sectors as % of GDP)

Source: World Bank [37], World Development Indicators.

Appendix F

Table 9

Chile: Diversification of economy (value added in sectors as % of GDP)

Source: World Bank [37], World Development Indicators.

Appendix G

Table 10