(Price NOK 50 + postage) Angola represents a new and promising offshore oil market where technology and contracts differ from those of Norway's offshore ...

The impact of the oil and gas industry – paradoxically seen both as a blessing and a curse on socio-economic development – is a question at ...

Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ total ...

Recent significant natural gas discoveries have pushed Tanzania into the international spotlight as a new petroleum producer. How can the country ensure ...

Politics, inequality and poverty in resource-rich countries. Michael Alvarez invites the authors John McNeish and Logan Owen to probe into the impact of oil and gas industry.

Policies for diversification should focus on international regulation that affects elite incentives, rather than on domestic industrial policy in countries where the economy is in the hands of a few, concludes researchers.

Policies aimed at boosting the interaction and cooperation of economic actors in industrial clusters might represent a crucial strategy for industrial ...

This report sets out the background, analyses, conclusions and recommendations from a review of a project on Micro and Small-scale Industry Development ...

Does corruption attract or deter foreign investment in the extractive sectors? This article presents an econometric analysis of extractive industry foreign ...

Investment is crucial for economic development. A number of empirical studies document a relationship between social development and aggregate foreign ...

Norad has been engaged in capacity building and provision of technical support to the Afghan Ministry of Mines since 2007. A part of this engagement relates ...

Oscillatory labour migration is shown to predominate in the labour market in Kenya. Workers move periodically between the towns and the rural areas where ...

This chapter adduces empirical evidence to show that the non-capitalist agricultural sector 'subsidises' industrial wages by relieving the capitalist ...

Countries within a region often experience a similar rate of industrial development. Do foreign direct investments have any influence on this aspect of ...

Private sector industrial entrepreneurs are usually perceived as “victims” of the Iranian revolution. This reading has been shaped by events ...

Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop Local Content Policies (LCPs) to increase local ...

The extractive industries sector is considered to be one of the most prone to illicit financial flows. To date, numerous instruments at the national, ...

The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of initiatives to improve the governance of the extractives sector. Starting with the Kimberly Process Certification ...

Information provided by insiders can contribute to the goal of reducing illicit capital flight from developing countries. It helps address one of the ...

Different external environments lead to differences in supply chain management. This chapter focuses on the organisation of the supply chain in the offshore ...