Productive activity have characterized the lives of the citizens of the Gulf prior to the discovery of oil. Innovation is a result of productive activity. During the periods of difficult and trying circumstances Gulf countries tended to innovate and ensured the sustainability of…
How Western control of Africa's oil has fed corruption and undermined democracy, and how African people have resisted.
As oil bearing country, the issue of development in Nigeria has been a complex one that has attracted attention of both the government and scholars because oil politics appears to shape resource management and the development process. While academic focus has been on the analysi…
This study examines the impact of the production of coal on economic growth in the context of the "resource curse hypothesis". The "resource curse hypothesis" suggests that there is an inverse relationship between natural resource abundance and economic growth. The resource curs…
The issue of the resource curse has been central to the academic debate since the 1990s. In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of the importance of this topic because of the discoveries of oil, natural gas, and other point source resources in several developing countri…
Petroleum wealth is the lifeblood of Iraq, with the potential to promote prosperity, or become a curse that destabilizes the country and interrupts its economic and political development. The management and sharing of petroleum wealth has been at the center of economic, politica…
The ongoing revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa represent a turning point in the political systems of these predominantly Muslim countries. This dissertation argues that the variation in the type of the social movements these populaces adopted is partly a function of…
This contributors to this volume look beyond the standard fields of research related to the resource curse. They also shed light on the specific developmental problems of resource-rich exporting states around the globe.
When countries discover that they possess large deposits of oil and natural gas, the news is usually welcome. Yet, paradoxically, if they rely on their wealth of natural resources, they often set down a path of poor economic performance and governance challenges. Only a few reso…
This contributors to this volume look beyond the standard fields of research related to the resource curse. They also shed light on the specific developmental problems of resource-rich exporting states around the globe.