Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets analyses the topical and contentious issue of the critical intersections between local content requirements (LCRs) and the implementation of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets including Africa, Asia,...

Local content and the sustainable development Nexus / Damilola S. Olawuy -- Defining the 'local' in local content requirements in the oil and gas sector / Chilenye Nwapi -- Local content measures and the WTO regime : addressing contentions and trade-offs / Mandy Meng Fang -- Local content...

"The global energy scenario has transformed in the past 20 years. Oil demand, earlier driven by the West, is now shifting to the East, more specifically to Asia. New oil supplies from North America have challenged the hegemony of the traditional oil exporters from West Asia and Africa. India,...