Why Does Development Fail in Resource Rich Economies

The Catch 22 of Mineral Wealth
Herausgeber: Papyrakis, Elissaios

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781138895584
• ISBN-10: 113889558X
• Artikelnr.: 57043019

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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