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This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing… -
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What are the key elements of a legal framework for the extractive sector? These can include a country's constitution (for example, laying out who owns natural… -
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State-controlled companies often play an outsized role in the management of the oil, gas, and mining industries. For example, they control about 90 percent of all global… -
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Allocation of mineral rights is a significant issue in natural resource management, and illustrates a fundamental difference between extractive industries and other… -
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Every night, 795 million people go to bed hungry although we produce sufficient food to provide an average 2700 kilocalories every day per person. Four billion metric… -
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In this chapter, Matthew Genasci discusses contract-based systems, including both production sharing arrangements and service contracts, in comparison to royalty tax… -
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This chapter covers international laws that can impact the governance of natural resources. Trade law is one example, as it can require governments not to restrict… -
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Jeffrey Sachs notes that it is, on the whole, good to have mineral resources or coal, oil, or gas resources as major inputs to the economy; major inputs to economic… -
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Discovery of natural resources is difficult; this is evidenced by the fact that in the typical poor country, if we look at how many resources it had discovered per… -
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in this chapter, Paul Collier looks at the politics of how the economic decision chain, from the discovery process of natural resources to domestic investments. He… -
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Saleem Ali provides an overview of the environmental assessment process, by which regulators can manage the ecological and economic costs and benefits of natural… -
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the movement of products long distances through multinational companies, as well as the challenges presented by the global… -
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This video explains the differences between mining and oil and gas extraction notably that extraction of oil (hydrocarbon exploitation) produces water as waste, while… -
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This chapter contextualizes mining's historic role in the world economy, notably that the stages of human history are partially defined by developments in this… -
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Why are strong, well-drafted legal frameworks not effectively or consistently enforced? This chapter details challenges such as low levels of capacity within government,…