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Lack of consultation. Stakeholders perspectives on local content requirements in the petroleum sector in Tanzania

CMI Brief | Oct 2016

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

oil, gas, resources, local content, petroleum, Tanzania

Understanding the lie of the land: an institutional analysis of petro-governance in Tanzania

Journal Article | Jan 2018

Tanzania has recently discovered large petroleum and natural gas reserves, boosting its natural resource stocks and potential future revenue flows. Whether ...

petroleum, governance, legal regimes, Tanzania

Petroleum populism: How new resource endowments shape voter choices

CMI 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

Alternatives to local content

Journal Article | Dec 2017

This paper discusses whether and to what extent resource-rich developing countries should introduce local content policies, i.e. requirements to include ...

Local content, petroleum, oil, natural gas, Tanzania

Petro-Governance in Tanzania: Opportunities and Challenges

CMI Brief | Oct 2016

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

oil, petroleum, gas, economy, Tanzania

Policy Making in the Tanzanian Petro State: Building a Statistical Basis

CMI Working Paper | Mar 2017

This paper deals with needs and availability of data, statistics and information in Tanzania. It relates to a five-year (2014–19) research programme ...

data, statistics, petroleum, analysis, Tanzania

Understanding the Lay of the Land: An Institutional Analysis of Petro-Governance in Tanzania

CMI Working Paper | Dec 2016

Tanzania has recently discovered large petroleum reserves, boosting its reserve natural resource stocks and potential future revenue flows. What is the ...

petroleum, bureucracy, revenue flows, natural resources, institutions, Tanzania

Prospects for peace in a petro-state: Gas extraction and participation in violence in Tanzania

CMI Brief | Dec 2017

Significant petroleum discoveries in Tanzania have shaped the country’s political discourse in recent years, with politicians promising to turn ...

violence, natural resources, petroleum, politics, Mtwara, Tanzania

Should developing countries establish petroleum funds?

Journal Article | Jun 2018

Many natural resource abundant countries have established sovereign wealth funds as part of their strategy of managing the resource wealth. The paper ...

Fiscal policy, extractive industries, resource curse, sovereign wealth fund

Political economy of the petroleum sector in Nigeria

Report in External Series | Sep 2011

The relatively slow pace of Nigeria’s development has often been attributed to the phenomenon of the resource curse whereby the nature of the state ...

corruption, petroleum, natural resources, political economy, Nigeria

Corruption in petroleum - within and beyond the sector

Book Chapter | Mar 2012

This paper addresses corruption in the governance of petroleum and underscores the importance of treating this problem as a result of factors that go ...

Corruption, natural resources, capital flight

The legislative landscape of the petroleum sector in Tanzania

Book Chapter | Nov 2019

The legislative landscape of the petroleum sector in Tanzania James Andilile, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad an

Tanzania

Shaping petroleum policies in Tanzania: The role of lobbyists

Book Chapter | Nov 2019

Shaping petroleum policies in Tanzania: The role of lobbyists Odd-Helge Fjeldstad and Jesper Johnsøn

Tanzania

Governing petroleum resources in Tanzania: Lessons learned and policy implications

Book Chapter | Nov 2019

Governing petroleum resources in Tanzania: Lessons learned and policy implications Odd-Helge Fjeldst

Tanzania

The non-oil tax reform in Angola: Escaping from petroleum dependency?

Journal Article | Jun 2020

Angola experienced an extraordinary oil boom between 2004 and 2014. During this period, oil revenue accounted for 80% of all government revenue. ...

Oil dependence, Natural resource revenues, Tax reform, Tax administration, Angola

The evolution and current status of the petroleum sector in Tanzania

Book Chapter | Nov 2019

The evolution and current status of the petroleum sector in Tanzania Donald Mmari, James Andilile an

Tanzania

Civil society’s role in petroleum sector governance: The case of Tanzania

CMI 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

An overview of the fiscal systems for the petroleum sector in Tanzania

Book Chapter | Nov 2019

An overview of the fiscal systems for the petroleum sector in Tanzania Donald Mmari, James Andilile,

Tanzania

Training programme "Understanding the petroleum sector challenges"

Project | Oct - Nov 2012

8th November 2012, Elmina, Ghana A one-day programme on Good Governance and Corruption Prevention in the Petroleum Sector, arranged by ...

Ghana

Liberalisation of trade in services and choice of technology in the Norwegian petroleum sector

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000

The petroleum sector is a service-intensive industry. The quality, price and availability of services are therefore important for the productivity level ...