This edited volume explores the link between natural resources and civil conflict, focusing especially on protest and violence in the context of mining and the extraction of minerals. The primary goal of the book is to analyze how the conflict-inducing effect of natural resources is mediated by...

1. Introduction: Ghana’s Petroleum Industry in Transition -- 2. Examining Ghana’s New Exploration and Production Act and Other Legislative Developments -- 3. The Ghana-Cote-d’Ivoire Maritime Border Dispute and Transboundary Resource Management in the Gulf of Guinea -- 4. Upstream Petroleum...

To investigate the effects on Papua New Guinea's economy of substantial liquified natural gas revenues arriving in 2015, we employ a model to examine the macroeconomic effects of a scalingup of natural resource windfall revenues and the implications for a variety of policy responses. The model...

This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and presents some new results. The principal reasons why resource-based production can inhibit economic growth over long periods are traced to the Dutch disease, neglect of education,...

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...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1.RobertM.Solow(1974),'TheEconomicsofResourcesortheResourcesofEconomics',AmericanEconomicReview,64(2),May,1-14 -- 2. Harold Hotelling (1931), 'The Economics of Exhaustible Resources', Journal of Political Economy, 39 (2), April, 137-75 -- 3. Partha...