Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Study- the Challenge of managing oil -- Chapter 2. Economic History of Oil Exploration and Production in T&T, 1857-2020 -- Chapter 3. History of oil refining in T&T -- Chapter 4. Natural Gas Production -- Chapter 5. Resource Curse and the Dutch Disease --...

Large quantities of oil were discovered in the Albertine Rift Valley in Western Uganda in 2006. The sound management of these oil resources and revenues is undoubtedly one of the key public policy challenges for Uganda as it is for other African countries with large oil and/or gas endowments....

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Ethiopia has policies and laws meant to govern the extractive resources and industries. The policies and laws in place share a cohesion compared with the fragile global governance system dominated by bilateral and multilateral treaty arrangements and voluntary standards. A closer scrutiny of the...