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Natural Resources
Natural ResourcesMain Research Topic
CMI research examines the political economy of natural resource extraction
covering both renewable and extractive sectors.
Natural resource wealth, conflict, and peacebuilding
Report in External Series | Feb 2009
What connections exist between natural resource wealth and violent conflict? What do such connections imply for policies to build peace in resource-rich ...
Natural resource management, natural resource wealth, resource curse, rentier state, oil, diamonds, armed conflict, war economies, conflict financing, CSR, peacebuilding
Testing The Pearl Hypothesis: Natural resources and trust
Testing The Pearl Hypothesis: Natural resources and trustJournal Article | May 2012
Do natural resources reduce social trust? This paper reviews the literature on natural resources and on trust. The existing theoretical and empirical ...
Natural resources, oil, trust, corruption, Angola
Corruption in natural resource management: Implications for policy makers
Corruption in natural resource management: Implications for policy makersJournal Article | Oct 2009
Corruption is the main reason why resource-rich countries perform badly in economic terms. Corruption in resource-rich countries takes two main forms, ...
Resource curse, corruption
Natural resources, corruption and trust: A complex relationship
Natural resources, corruption and trust: A complex relationshipU4 Issue | Dec 2011
Do natural resources reduce social trust? And if so, do natural resources have a direct effect on trust, or is their effect indirect through variables ...
natural resource management, corruption, natural resources, social trust
Political Economy Models of the Resource Curse: Implications for Policy and Research
Political Economy Models of the Resource Curse: Implications for Policy and ResearchCMI Working Paper | Jan 2008
A number of studies suggest that natural resources can have a negative impact on the developing prospects of countries. This paper reviews political economy ...
Resource curse, Oil, Institutions, Petroleum-related aid
It's the rents, stupid! The political economy of the resource curse
It's the rents, stupid! The political economy of the resource curseJournal Article | Nov 2009
A number of studies suggest that natural resources can have a negative impact on the developing prospects of countries. Empirical results suggest that ...
Natural resources, resource curse, institutions
Corruption in Natural Resource Management - An Introduction
Corruption in Natural Resource Management - An IntroductionU4 Brief | Feb 2008
Natural resources often provide fertile ground for corruption. Since a substantial number of partner countries in development cooperation are richly endowed ...
corruption, oil, forestry, natural resources, anti-corruption, natural resource management, World
Corruption, natural resources and development: From resource curse to political ecology
Corruption, natural resources and development: From resource curse to political ecologyEdited Book | Jan 2017
Corruption, Natural Resources and Development provides a fresh and extensive discussion of corruption issues in natural resources sectors. Reflecting ...
Corruption, political ecology, resource curse, wildlife trafficking, urban land, lobbying, transparency, community development, marine fisheries, biofuel, land management, political transitions, deforestation, extractive industries, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Madagascar, Norway, Philippines, Kenya
International initiatives to address the resource curse: High on rhetoric, low on relevance?
International initiatives to address the resource curse: High on rhetoric, low on relevance?Book Chapter | Jul 2010
A number of studies suggest that natural resources can have a negative impact on the developing prospects of countries, a phenomenon that has been labelled ...
Is transparency the key to reducing corruption in resource-rich countries?
Is transparency the key to reducing corruption in resource-rich countries?Journal Article | Feb 2009
Transparency is increasingly viewed as central to curbing corruption and other dysfunctions of resource-rich developing countries. The international development ...
natural resources, corruption, transparency, EITI
Micro effects of natural resources: Insights from a survey of Angolan microcredit clients
Micro effects of natural resources: Insights from a survey of Angolan microcredit clientsBook Chapter | Jan 2014
While a number of studies documents macro level effects of natural resources, much less is known about how resources such as oil affect development prospects ...
Angola
Petroleum populism: How new resource endowments shape voter choices
Petroleum populism: How new resource endowments shape voter choicesCMI Brief | Dec 2017
High-value natural resources can be a political “curse” when political elites use resource revenues to maintain power, subvert democratic ...
petroleum, voting, natural resources, Tanzania
Digitizing the landscape: Technology to improve integrity in natural resource management
Digitizing the landscape: Technology to improve integrity in natural resource managementU4 Brief | Mar 2017
Many information technology initiatives have emerged in recent years with the aim of improving natural resource management. These take a variety of technological ...
natural resource management, technology
Shadow Value Chains: Tracing the link between corruption, illicit activity and lootable natural resources from West Africa
Shadow Value Chains: Tracing the link between corruption, illicit activity and lootable natural resources from West AfricaU4 Issue | Jun 2017
Illicit natural resource trade continues to benefit corrupt officials, criminal and terrorist networks and to divert resources away from development, ...
natural resource management, Sierra Leone, Mali, Nigeria, Liberia, natural resources, development, security, shadow value chains, value chains
Non-resource taxation in a resource-rich setting
Book Chapter | Nov 2019
Non-resource taxation in a resource-rich setting Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Cornel Jahari, Donald Mmari an
Tanzania
Rethinking natural resource conflicts
Report in External Series | Nov 2010
In this thematic paper I will reconsider the connections between natural resources and conflict. Aimed at producing a state of the art review of the research ...
Natural Resource, Conflict
The Resource Curse: Which Institutions Matter?
CMI Working Paper | Jun 2007
Two types of models are dominant in the current resource curse literature. One type of model studies the selection of entrepreneurs into rent-seeking ...
Natural resource, Resource curse, Institutions, JEL codes: D72, D78, Q, Q2
The resource curse: Which institutions matter?
The resource curse: Which institutions matter?Journal Article | Feb 2009
Two types of models are dominant in the current resource curse literature. One type of model studies the selection of entrepreneurs into rent-seeking ...
Resource curse, institutions
Ethnic Mobilization in Resource-Abundant African States. Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Role of Ethnic Identity and Natural Resources in Armed Intrastate Conflicts
Doctoral Thesis | Jan 2015
Ethnic Mobilization in Resource-Abundant African States. Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of th
Civil society’s role in petroleum sector governance: The case of Tanzania
Civil society’s role in petroleum sector governance: The case of TanzaniaCMI Brief | May 2019
Good governance in the management of natural resources is now recognized by scholars and policy makers as key to ensuring that countries can prevent and ...
Tanzania