Donor interest in the extractives sector is based upon the premise that it represents an opportunity to improve a country’s development prospects. However, in many cases the presence of extractive resources is associated with poor economic performance. As a result, some donors are trying a...

Ghana' economic growth picked up in the early 2000s and has been exceptionally strong over the past few years, with price booms of its main commodity exports, gold and cocoa, and the initiation of commercial oil production in 2011. This paper examines recent econometric evidence on Ghana'...

Introduction -- The nature of a political resource -- Capturing oil -- Marketing oil -- Living with oil -- Securing oil -- Developing through oil -- Governing oil -- Better and beyond: the future of oil

The history and historiography of natural resource development in the Arctic : the state of the literature / Ken Coates -- Social impacts of non-renewable resource development on indigenous communities in Alaska, Greenland, and Russia / Peter Schweitzer, Florian Stammler, Cecilie Ebsen, Aytalina...