In common with several other low-income African economies, in recent years Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its long-established extractives industries. Huge new gas finds in particular have led to expectations that these industries will contribute very...

This review of the literature shows that resource booms have a broad impact on economy, society and politics of the respective countries. After initial optimism that resource wealth would offer an easy road to development, opposing empirical evidence from resource countries have led to the...