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Cost-benefit analysis of the Greenland offshore shrimp fishery

Vestergaard, Niels; Stoyanova, Kristiana A.; Wagner, Claas - 2010

This paper examines the social economic value of the Greenland off-shore shrimp fishery. The contribution of the … the state and development of the offshore shrimp fishery in Greenland, as well as the changes in profits, sales and … production in the years 2006 and 2007. Financial accounts and costs data provided by the companies fishing in Greenland have …

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The Basilicata wealth fund : resource policy and long-run economic development in southern Italy

Iacono, Roberto - 2015

This paper contributes to the growing political economy literature of within-country natural resources management, by proposing a new resource policy for the oil-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. The policy proposal is to establish a (regional) wealth fund in which all the royalty...

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Eco-social contracting for environmental justice : assessing the effectiveness of community-based natural resource management

Sibanda, Nkosikhona - 2024

This working paper explores the role of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in contributing to environmental justice as envisaged by the concept of a new eco-social contract. CBNRM actively involves local communities in sustainable resource management, aligning with the...

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EU15 trade with emerging economies and rentier states : leveraging geography

Gaulier, Guillaume; Lemoine, Françoise; Ünal-Kesenci, … - 2009

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The political economy of financing childrenś rights through extractive industries in the Philippines

Singh, Jewellord T. Nem; Grugel, Jean B.; Hatcher, Pascale - 2016

compelling argument for the need to ring-fence mineral rents for social investments in children and young people. To do so would … require a strong pro-welfare policy coalition committed to channelling mineral wealth towards social investment and willing to …

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Extractive industries, revenue allocation and local politics

Arellano-Yanguas, Francisco Javier; Mejía Acosta, Andrés - 2014

The success of a developmental strategy based on the extraction of non-renewable resources is largely dependent on the share of revenues captured by the state from the extractive sector and the modalities that governments adopt to use and distribute those revenues. In the last two decades, local...

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Extractive industries and the financing of child-inclusive social development in the Philippines : trends and policy frameworks

Magno, Cielo - 2016

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Unraveling the network of the extractive industries

Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Guerra, Alfredo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2021

This paper analyzes extractive industries in Colombia and their connections to other economic activities in the country. We use detailed social security data on all formal employees to create an industry-relatedness measure using labor flows between industries. Drawing on the vast network...

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Profit sharing under the threat of nationalization

Di Corato, Luca - 2010

A government bargains a mutually convenient agreement with a multinational corporation to extract a natural resource. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the...

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Seemingly irrelevant factors and willingness to block polluting investments

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Balza, Lenin H.; Bejarano, Hernan; … - 2023

Using an online multi-country video-vignette survey experiment, we measure bias against extractive industries and foreign firms in individuals perceptions and preferences related to industrial projects with potential economic benefits and environmental costs. Individuals face a hypothetical...

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