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This paper addresses the impact of the oil exploration in the Rift Valley (East Congo) on the crisis in the country.
This report examines the human cost of oil, and corporate complicity in the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses.
The World Bank Group (WBG) has the potential to improve the contribution of extractive industries (EI) to sustainable development and poverty reduction.
This report argues that for many developing countries, oil reserves are more likely to prove a curse than a blessing. Poor countries dependent on oil revenues have a higher incidence of four great and interconnected ills.
This report reviews the experience and outcomes of the funding by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) of projects in the extractive industries.
This report highlights issues discussed in the 2002 RIIA workshop. It demonstrates the challenges faced in the creation and implementation of agreements with stakeholders on economic and environmental areas of sustainable development in the extractive industry.
This paper explores the impact of natural resources on development. It uses new data on natural resources to show that, contrary to the popular ‘resource curse’ hypothesis, resource abundance in itself is not negative for a country’s economy.
Mineral wealth often detracts from, rather than enhances, the economic performance of developing countries, a phenomenon known as the “resource curse”.
This paper starts from the optimistic assumption that the policies required for environmentally sustainable economic development are known but difficulties surround their implementation.
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