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Effects of oil resource endowment, natural gas and agriculture output: Policy options for inclusive growth

Mesagan, Ekundayo P.; Adenuga, Juliet I. - 2019

health care makes this study to examine the impact of crude oil, natural gas and agriculture output on inclusive growth in … Lag suggests that crude oil and natural gas production insignificantly impact inclusive growth while agriculture output is … growth spread in Nigeria whereas the agriculture resource is critical for inclusive growth. It is important to focus on …

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Alternatives to local content

Kolstad, Ivar; Kinyondo, Abel - 2015

This paper suggests that an optimal local content policy in the context of flawed institutions is a more minimal one than those typically pursued by developing countries with recently discovered petroleum reserves. We argue that local content requirements need to be seen as a public expenditure...

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Extractive industries: transforming states and improving economic management

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

While market mechanisms and private initiatives can deliver much for development, public action is also necessary to: maximize the economic benefits of the extractive industries; manage potentially large capital and revenues flows; minimize adverse environmental and social impacts; and steer the...

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Extractive industries: recognizing and managing the risks in resource-dependent economies

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

This paper analyses the risks facing resource-dependent countries. These include: (i) economic mismanagement (the 'resource curse'); (ii) political mismanagement; (iii) environmental damage (climate change and the destruction of natural capital). It distinguishes 'risk' (which can be addressed...

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Addressing oil spillages and agricultural productivity. Evidence of pollution in Nigeria

Manotas-Hidalgo, Beatriz - 2022

This paper examines how the pollution generated by oil operations in Nigeria can affect agricultural total factor productivity. I analyze oil spillages, which constitute the major ecological disaster in Nigeria, leading to large environmental, economic and social problems. Following a...

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What Change Can The New Developments In Energy Sector Bring Into the World's Energy political and Geopolitical Order?

Tutulmaz, Onur - In: Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People 3 (2014) 4, pp. 15-24

The recent developments bring US to a leading natural gas and oil producer position. The attempts in last 20 years to bring new horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies together have developed a success in shale gas and oil production in US; the production volumes has reached to...

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Small-scale Mining and Agricultural Development : Evidence from Northwestern Tanzania

Poignant, Adrian - 2022

The relationship between rural industries and agriculture during the early stages of economic development is not well … contradict the hypothesis that rural non-farm sector activities generate positive spillover effects for smallholder agriculture …

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Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan African Countries? : Evidence from a Panel of Countries

Lee, Munseob - 2015

We examine the impact of resource windfall on the standard of living both in the short-run and long-run, using a sample of 130 countries, 1963-2007. Then, we systematically investigate the effect of resource windfall on welfare in three different groups of countries: We find that in the...

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Understanding the boom : country study : Tanzania

Henstridge, Mark - 2018

There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array...

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Understanding the boom : a framing paper

Henstridge, Mark - 2018

A significant natural resource discovery creates excited popular expectations of imminent wealth. But the size of a boom is usually overestimated and the delay in receiving revenues is underestimated. This paper takes stock of the sequencing, timing, and scale of the development of a natural...

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