From Curse To Blessing?
Using Natural Resources To Fuel Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 21. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-4051-9697-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book investigates how revenues derived from natural resource exploitation can be translated into real benefits for the citizens of resource-rich countries
Shows how despite unprecedentedly high prices of natural resources such as oil and gas on the global market, resource-rich countries are home to over 60% of the world's poorest people
Discusses the counterintuitive phenomenon known as the "resource curse" and how mineral wealth can impoverish countries
Presents the major obstacles for the international community in the fight against poverty and in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
Debates the ways to lift the curse, and suggests policy interventions to break the vicious circle
Includes cross-country comparisons as well as focussing on countries such as Azerbaijan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and the Russian Federation
Shows how despite unprecedentedly high prices of natural resources such as oil and gas on the global market, resource-rich countries are home to over 60% of the world's poorest people
Discusses the counterintuitive phenomenon known as the "resource curse" and how mineral wealth can impoverish countries
Presents the major obstacles for the international community in the fight against poverty and in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
Debates the ways to lift the curse, and suggests policy interventions to break the vicious circle
Includes cross-country comparisons as well as focussing on countries such as Azerbaijan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and the Russian Federation
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-9697-0 (9781405196970)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Irakli Khodeli is the Assistant Programme Specialist in the Bioethics Section at UNESCO.
Content
Part I: Natural resource wealth, good governance, transparency and sustainable development: a general debate. 1. Introduction (Irakli Khodeli).
2. Resolving conflicts of interest in state-owned enterprises (Jenik Radon and Julius Thaler).
3. The devil's excrements as social cement: natural resources and political terror, 1980-2002 (Indra de Soysa and Helga Malmin Binningsbo).
4. Natural resource rent-cycling outcomes in Botswana, Indonesia and Venezuela (Richard M. Auty).
5. Governance strategies to remedy the natural resource curse (Joseph Siegle).
6. Budget transparency and development in resource-dependent countries (Paolo de Renzio, Pamela Gomez and James Sheppard).
7. Before the peak: impacts of oil shortages on the developing world (Ben W. Ebenhack and Daniel M. Martinez).
Part II: A view from the field.
8. Social and economic implications of oil policy development in Nigeria (Alexis Rwabizambuga).
9. The public oversight of oil projects in Azerbaijan, 2004-2007 (Farda Asadov).
10. Energy relations in Russia: administration, politics and security (Andrey Makarychev).
11. Doing business with integrity: the experience of Anglogold Ashanti in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Paul Kapelus, Ralph Hamann and Edward O'Keefe).
Part III: A view from the industry.
12. The IPIECA social responsibility working group and human rights (Jenny Owens).
Index.
2. Resolving conflicts of interest in state-owned enterprises (Jenik Radon and Julius Thaler).
3. The devil's excrements as social cement: natural resources and political terror, 1980-2002 (Indra de Soysa and Helga Malmin Binningsbo).
4. Natural resource rent-cycling outcomes in Botswana, Indonesia and Venezuela (Richard M. Auty).
5. Governance strategies to remedy the natural resource curse (Joseph Siegle).
6. Budget transparency and development in resource-dependent countries (Paolo de Renzio, Pamela Gomez and James Sheppard).
7. Before the peak: impacts of oil shortages on the developing world (Ben W. Ebenhack and Daniel M. Martinez).
Part II: A view from the field.
8. Social and economic implications of oil policy development in Nigeria (Alexis Rwabizambuga).
9. The public oversight of oil projects in Azerbaijan, 2004-2007 (Farda Asadov).
10. Energy relations in Russia: administration, politics and security (Andrey Makarychev).
11. Doing business with integrity: the experience of Anglogold Ashanti in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Paul Kapelus, Ralph Hamann and Edward O'Keefe).
Part III: A view from the industry.
12. The IPIECA social responsibility working group and human rights (Jenny Owens).
Index.