Economic Diversification Policies in Natural Resource Rich Economies

Economic Diversification Policies in Natural Resource Rich Economies
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781317338758
ISBN-13 : 1317338758
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Synopsis Economic Diversification Policies in Natural Resource Rich Economies by : Sami Mahroum

Economic diversification remains at the top of the agenda for hundreds of regions around the world. From the single commodity economies of African countries and the Caribbean, to the many single industry regions of Europe and North America, as well as the oil and gas rich but volatile hydrocarbon economies. Economic diversification policies have been around for almost a century with varying degrees of success and failure. Economic Diversification Policies in Natural Resource Rich Economies takes a special interest in the policy experiences of a set of different countries that have extractive industries representing significant drivers of their economies and subsequently are significant contributors to government revenues. It explores twelve cases including upper-middle to high income economies such as Canada, Australia, Iceland and Norway, emerging economies such as Latin America, the GCC (Saudi and UAE), Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Russia, as well as the developing economy of Uganda. Each chapter provides a review of economic diversification experiences including policy environment, diversification strategies, desired outcomes, the role of government, and a critical evaluation of achievements. This book is suitable for those who study environmental economics, development economics and resource management.

Development Policies in Natural Resource Economies

Development Policies in Natural Resource Economies
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 1782541292
ISBN-13 : 9781782541295
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Development Policies in Natural Resource Economies by : Jörg Mayer

An examination of the factors that influence economic growth and sustainable development in countries with a significant natural resource sector. It looks at how to make the primary sector sufficiently productive to provide for investment in both itself and other sectors of the economy.

Rents to Riches?

Rents to Riches?
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9780821384800
ISBN-13 : 0821384805
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Synopsis Rents to Riches? by : Naazneen Barma

Rents to Riches> focuses on the political economy of the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the natural resource management (NRM) value chain. Many resource-dependent developing countries pursue seemingly shortsighted and suboptimal policies when extracting, taxing, and investing resource rents. The book contextualizes these micro-level outcomes with an emphasis on two central political economy dimensions: the degree to which governments can make credible intertemporal commitments to both resource developers and citizens, and the degree to which governments and inclined to turn resource rents into public goods. Almost 1.5 billion people live in the more than 50 World Bank client countries classified as resource-dependent. A detailed understanding of the way political economy characteristics affect the NRM decisions made in these countries by governments, extractive developers, and society can improve the design of interventions to support welfare-enhancing policy making and governance in the natural resource sectors. Featuring case study work from Africa (Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria), East Asia and Pacific (the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Timor-Leste), and Latin America and the Caribbean (Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Trinidad an dTobago_, the book provides guidance for government clients, domestic stakeholders, and development partners committed to transforming natural resource into sustainable development riches.

The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development

The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781317418900
ISBN-13 : 1317418905
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Synopsis The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development by : Paul A. Haslam

The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and public spending on social and developmental goals surged. These trends, often described as resource nationalism, have developed into a strategy for economic development, generated a re-imagining of the state and its institutional possibilities, and created a new but very significant political risk for extractive enterprises. However, these innovations, which constitute the most dramatic change in development policy in Latin America since the advent of neoliberalism, have so far received little attention from either academic or policy-oriented publications. This book explores the reasons behind these policies, and their effects on states, firms, and development trajectories. This text brings together renowned thematic experts to examine the political-economic causes of resource nationalism, as well as its manifestation in six Latin American countries. The causal variables considered by the contributors to this collection include a range of political-economic determinants of policy including commodity prices; the influence of ideology and national politics; ideas about industrial policy; relations between host governments and investors; and how countries respond to opportunities provided by regional initiatives and the new geography of the global economy. This volume is essential reading in development economics, political economy, and Latin American studies, as well as for those who want to understand what economic development means after neoliberalism.

Natural Resources and Economic Development

Natural Resources and Economic Development
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 438
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ISBN-10 : 0521706513
ISBN-13 : 9780521706513
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Natural Resources and Economic Development by : Edward Barbier

A comprehensive analysis of natural resource use and economic development in poor countries, first published in 2005.

Resources and Development

Resources and Development
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 624
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89000981001
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Synopsis Resources and Development by : Peter Dorner

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 584
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ISBN-10 : 9781315448510
ISBN-13 : 1315448513
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Synopsis Environmental and Natural Resource Economics by : Jonathan M. Harris

Harris and Roach present a compact and accessible presentation of the core environmental and resource topics and more, with analytical rigor as well as engaging examples and policy discussions. They take a broad approach to theoretical analysis, using both standard economic and ecological analyses, and developing these both from theoretical and practical points of view. It assumes a background in basic economics, but offers brief review sections on important micro and macroeconomic concepts, as well as appendices with more advanced and technical material. Extensive instructor and student support materials, including PowerPoint slides, data updates, and student exercises are provided.

Patterns of Development

Patterns of Development
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Publisher : Halsted Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0470235187
ISBN-13 : 9780470235188
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Patterns of Development by : R. M. Auty

Using the most up-to-date statistics, this user-friendly text draws on the postwar experience of five main types of developing countries to explain the policies necessary to achieve rapid, equitable and sustainable economic growth. Describes how the diverse natural resource endowment of these regions has influenced their selection of development policy and specifically why well-endowed countries have tended to under-perform. Consists of the following central themes: rural neglect, income inequality, hyper-urbanization, unequal terms of trade and government's role in the development process.

Resource Abundance and Economic Development

Resource Abundance and Economic Development
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 357
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ISBN-10 : 9780199246885
ISBN-13 : 0199246882
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Resource Abundance and Economic Development by : R. M. Auty

Since the 1960s the per capita incomes of the resource-poor countries have grown significantly faster than those of the resource-abundant countries. In fact, in recent years economic growth has been inversely proportional to the share of natural resource rents in GDP, so that the small mineral-driven economies have performed least well and the oil-driven economies worst of all. Yet the mineral-driven resource-rich economies have high growth potential because the mineral exportsboost their capacity to invest and to import."Resource Abundance and Economic Development" explains the disappointing performance of resource-abundant countries by extending the growth accounting framework to include natural and social capital. The resulting synthesis identifies two contrasting development trajectories: the competitive industrialization of the resource-poor countries and the staple trap of many resource-abundant countries. The resource-poor countries are less prone to policy failure than the resource-abundant countriesbecause social pressures force the political state to align its interests with the majority poor and follow relatively prudent policies. Resource-abundant countries are more likely to engender political states in which vested interests vie to capture resource surpluses (rents) at the expense of policycoherence. A longer dependence on primary product exports also delays industrialization, heightens income inequality, and retards skill accumulation. Fears of 'Dutch disease' encourage efforts to force industrialization through trade policy to protect infant industry. The resulting slow-maturing manufacturing sector demands transfers from the primary sector that outstrip the natural resource rents and sap the competitiveness of the economy.The chapters in this collection draw upon historical analysis and models to show that a growth collapse is not the inevitable outcome of resource abundance and that policy counts. Malaysia, a rare example of successful resource-abundant development, is contrasted with Ghana, Bolivia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Argentina, which all experienced a growth collapse. The book also explores policies for reviving collapsed economies with reference to Costa Rica, South Africa, Russia and Central Asia. Itdemonstrates the importance of initial conditions to successful economic reform.

Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries

Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 082231049X
ISBN-13 : 9780822310495
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries by : William Ascher

Drawing on case studies developed over a two-year period, 1987–1989, by Fellows in the Program in International Development Policy at Duke University, including experienced representatives from developing countries, the World Bank, and scholars, the authors integrate the growing interest in environmental protection and resource conservation into the existing body of knowledge about the political economy of developing countries. This book is about the links that tie resource use, environmental quality, and economic development, and the way in which those links are affected by the distribution of income and resource ownership. The links may be relatively simple, as in the case of peasant farmers too poor to conserve resources for the future and with nothing to gain from sound environmental practices. Or they may be very complex—as the authors find when they demonstrate how achievement of higher incomes by the rich can increase environmentally destructive behavior by the poor. Many of the links in some way involve rural land use, whether for agriculture or forestry.Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countriesargues that the policies that matter are not merely those dealing with resources and the environment, but a much broader set that includes income distribution and asset ownership.