From Curse to Blessing?

Using Natural Resources to Fuel Sustainable Development
Herausgeber: Khodeli, Irakli

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781405196970
• ISBN-10: 1405196971
• Artikelnr.: 26898833

Autorenporträt

Irakli Khodeli is the Assistant Programme Specialist in the Bioethics Section at UNESCO.   

Inhaltsangabe

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 Binningsbø).
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. Martínez).
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.