This paper aims at providing a guide to ensure efficiency in the management of Chad's windfall to support the development process and poverty reduction. The analysis is based on the lessons and experience of countries that have successfully used natural-resource-generated windfalls to launch...

This article reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to key development outcomes. To date, this area has received less analysis, although it is relevant to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development...

The Paradox of Development Troubles in Resource-Endowed Countries -- The Political Assemblage: Institutions, Structures, Networks, and Actors -- 'Dutch Disease' and the Economic Assemblage -- Society and the Resource Curse: A Relational Perspective -- The 'Lost Child': A Possible Environmental...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...