Why Does Development Fail in Resource Rich Economies: The Catch 22 of Mineral Wealth

ISBN-13: 9780367321871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 146 str.

Elissaios Papyrakis

Opis

This book is a unique attempt to provide a more holistic and interdisciplinary picture of the resource curse and its multi-scale effects. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: What have we learned from two decades of intensive research  2. The anthropology of extraction: Critical perspectives on the resource curse   3. The impact of natural resources: Survey of recent quantitative evidence   4. The institutional and psychological foundations of natural resource policies   5. Gold mining and economic development in Guyana: A unique resource curse?  6. Righting the resource curse: Institutional politics and state capabilities in Edo state, Nigeria   7. Natural resources and small island economies: Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago  8. Resources and governance in Sierra Leone’s civil war   9. Corruption and the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative

O autorze

Elissaios Papyrakis is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and in the School of International Development, the University of East Anglia, UK. His work lies at the intersection of environment and development issues.