This open access book critically examines the role international law plays in post-colonial countries, which primarily rely on the exploitation of their natural resources for economic and human development.Since the 1990s, expressio...Loe edasi...
Majority State Ownership of Oil and Mining Sectors in Africa: The Resource Curse Undermined shows that countries in sub-Saharan Africa with majority state ownership of their major oil or mineral export sectors suffered from more severe versions of t...Loe edasi...
Through a series of African case studies, this book critically examines the complexities of recent resource discoveries of mineral, oil, and gas to determine whether Africa stands on the cusp of a post-resource curse era or if historical patterns of...Loe edasi...
This book explores whether any theory alone is sufficiently capable of resolving the complexity of global justice, arguing that a combination of statism and cosmopolitanism is needed. This book explores whether any theory alone is s...Loe edasi...
This book gives a comprehensive overview of Ghana’s hydrocarbon economy using actor network and assemblage theories to contest the methodological nationalism of mainstream accounts of the resource curse in resource-rich countries. This boo...Loe edasi...
Nathan Andrews, j. Andrew Grant, Jesse Salah Ovadia
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487505219)
There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, more than a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organ...Loe edasi...
This book explores whether any theory alone is sufficiently capable of resolving the complexity of global justice, arguing that a combination of statism and cosmopolitanism is needed.In current times, xenophobia, nationalism and populism ha...Loe edasi...
Outlines the source of disagreement about a resource curse, suggests strategies to address them, and shows how they produce insights about the politics of resource wealth....Loe edasi...
This book gives a comprehensive overview of Ghana’s hydrocarbon economy using actor network and assemblage theories to contest the methodological nationalism of mainstream accounts of the resource curse in resource-rich countries. Drawing u...Loe edasi...
There has been a lot of interest within the scientific and policy communities in the ‘resource curse’; that is, the tendency of mineral rich economies to turn into development failures. Yet, after more than 20 years of intensive research and actio...Loe edasi...
John Prendergast, Fidel Bafilemba, Ryan Gosling, Soraya Aziz Souleymane, Dave Eggers, Chouchou Namegabe, Sam Ilus
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Dec-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781455584642)
Investigates the role of western prosperity on five hundred years of Congolese history, sharing the poignant experiences of everyday people whose lives have been upended by regional violence. The humanitarian co-author of Beyond Mindfulnes...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Dec-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198828860)
The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent. Total rent can therefore be from one-tenth to two-fifths of GDP and sometimes more. Rent is detached from the activi...Loe edasi...
John Prendergast, Jerome Butler, Fidel Bafilemba, Ryan Gosling, Soraya Aziz Souleymane, Chouchou Namegabe, Dave Eggers, Sam Ilus, John Prendergast, Channie Waites...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Dec-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781549194788)
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Congo is one of the most complex countries in the world, yet it is the most overlooked. It is one of the wealthiest in Africa as a result of its natural endowments, but its people are some of the poorest in the world. Congolese culture is informed...Loe edasi...
The “resource curse,” or “paradox of plenty,” refers to the long-established notion central in development economics that countries rich in natural resources, particularly minerals and fuels, perform less well economically than countries with fewer n...Loe edasi...
The “resource curse,” or “paradox of plenty,” refers to the long-established notion central in development economics that countries rich in natural resources, particularly minerals and fuels, perform less well economically than countries with fewer n...Loe edasi...
Sari: Economic, Political and Social Institutions in Islam
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781433143519)
Resource Rich Muslim Countries and Islamic Institutional Reforms explores the resource curse, a condition in which a country’s abundance of natural resources is negatively linked with the country’s development and economic growth, in re...Loe edasi...
There has been a lot of interest within the scientific and policy communities in the ‘resource curse’; that is, the tendency of mineral rich economies to turn into development failures. Yet, after more than 20 years of intensive research and actio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jan-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781785361197)
Corruption, Natural Resources and Development provides a fresh and extensive discussion of corruption issues in natural resources sectors. Reflecting on recent debates in corruption research and revisiting resource curse challenges in light of politi...Loe edasi...
This book presents a critical analysis of the ‘resource curse’ doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa’s new oil metropolis - Sek...Loe edasi...
Productive activity characterized the lives of the citizens of the Gulf prior to the discovery of oil. Innovation is a result of productive activity. During the periods of difficult and trying circumstances, Gulf countries tended to innovate to ensu...Loe edasi...
A re-conceptualisation of the widely-held concept of the resource curse, which contends that resource booms inevitably lead to numerous political, social and economic problems. This book counters that these problems are by no means inevitable, but...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812244007)
Beyond the Resource Curse focuses on the paradoxical relationship between natural wealth and economic security and examines the particular pitfalls and consistent problems facing oil and gas exporting states and contributes to a better comp...Loe edasi...
Rabah Arezki, Amadou N. R. Sy, Thorvaldur Gylfason
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2012, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: International Monetary Fund (IMF), ISBN-13: 9781616351458)
This edited collection of fourteen papers on natural resource management examines a range of issues facing extractive industries and resource rich nations in the wake of the recent financial crisis, and explores the nexus of economic, political and s...Loe edasi...
Sari: New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781848446793)
Noting a phenomenal increase in the known mineral and fossil fuel reserves of African countries, as well as longstanding issues of governance that have led to widespread poverty amongst such riches, Botchway (U. of Qatar) presents 14 papers that expl...Loe edasi...
Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Joseph E. Stiglitz, George Soros
Sari: Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2007, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231141963)
The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now k...Loe edasi...
A generous endowment of natural resources should favour rapid economic and social development. The experience of countries like Angola and Iraq, however, suggests that resource wealth often proves a curse rather than a blessing. Billions of dollars f...Loe edasi...
