Oil extraction stands a chance of making the most significant contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and development in general to resource rich developing nations of the world in a number of ways. The most recent mechanism under consideration is corporate social responsibility (CSR)....

This paper synthesizes statistical information evidencing the proposition that extractive industries are of great significance in many low- and middle-income developing economies. It examines the scale of the current dependence of low- and middle-income economies on both types of extractive...