Why Governments Waste Natural Resources
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Author | : William Ascher |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801860966 |
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Drawing on 16 case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, reveals the complex political and programmatic reasons why government officials in developing countries often willfully adopt wasteful natural resource policies.
Author | : Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Natural Resources Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Coal trade |
ISBN | : |
Download Relation of Government to Natural Resources: Coal, Oil Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Ian Bannon |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780821355039 |
Download Natural Resources and Violent Conflict Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Research carried out by the World Bank on the root causes of conflict and civil war finds that a developing country's economic dependence on natural resources or other primary commodities is strongly associated with the risk level for violent conflict. This book brings together a collection of reports and case studies that explore what the international community in particular can do to reduce this risk.; The text explains the links between natural resources and conflict and examines the impact of resource dependence on economic performance, governance, secessionist movements and revel financing. It then explores avenues for international action - from financial and resource reporting procedures and policy recommendations to commodity tracking systems and enforcement instruments, including sanctions, certification requirements, aid conditionality, legislative and judicial instruments.
Author | : Texas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Natural resources |
ISBN | : |
Download Natural Resources Code Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Naazneen Barma |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2011-12-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821387162 |
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This volume focuses on the political economy surrounding the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the value chain for natural resource management. From the perspective of public interest or good governance, many resource-dependent developing countries pursue apparently short-sighted and sub-optimal policies in relation to the extraction and capture of resource rents, and to spending and savings from their resource endowments. This work contextualizes these micro-level choices and outcomes.
Author | : Sonia Graham |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 148630639X |
Download Natural Resources and Environmental Justice Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Environmental management involves making decisions about the governance of natural resources such as water, minerals or land, which are inherently decisions about what is just or fair. Yet, there is little emphasis on justice in environmental management research or practical guidance on how to achieve fairness and equity in environmental governance and public policy. This results in social dilemmas that are significant issues for government, business and community agendas, causing conflict between different community interests. Natural Resources and Environmental Justice provides the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of justice research in Australian environmental management, identifying best practice and current knowledge gaps. With chapters written by experts in environmental and social sciences, law and economics, this book covers topical issues, including coal seam gas, desalination plants, community relations in mining, forestry negotiations, sea-level rise and animal rights. It also proposes a social justice framework and an agenda for future justice research in environmental management. These important environmental issues are covered from an Australian perspective and the book will be of broad use to policy makers, researchers and managers in natural resource management and governance, environmental law, social impact and related fields both in Australia and abroad.
Author | : Laura Castellucci |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2014-06-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136210849 |
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In the today’s global "commercial society" an inquiry into the economic role of government is gaining momentum. Many crucial goods for the wellbeing of a society are not "commercial", national security and clean air are great examples. This means that the economic role of government is not limited to cure the so called "market failures" but it has to provide for non-commercial goods. Unfortunately in the last few decades the decline of the political-economic culture of western post-industrial societies has left scope for people to blindly believe in a free, deregulated market. This book brings the culture of the state in from the cold, by confronting readers at the start with the necessity of recognizing the fundamental difference between private commercial interests, whose provision rests on the culture of profit, and public shared interests, whose provision rests on the culture of the state. This book also explores how much individual wellbeing does depend on both. The only chance for public shared interests, with their non-profit nature, to successfully keep their ground in the face of the overwhelming power of private commercial/financial interests, lies in regenerating a political-economic state culture whereby governments and policy makers/politicians understand their responsibility and social function to consist primarily in pursuing the satisfaction of the formers and not in acting on behalf of the latter.
Author | : Daniel Lederman |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2006-10-23 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0821365460 |
Download Natural Resources, Neither Curse nor Destiny Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
'Natural Resources: Neither Course nor Destiny' brings together a variety of analytical perspectives, ranging from econometric analyses of economic growth to historical studies of successful development experiences in countries with abundant natural resources. The evidence suggests that natural resources are neither a curse nor destiny. Natural resources can actually spur economic development when combined with the accumulation of knowledge for economic innovation. Furthermore, natural resource abundance need not be the only determinant of the structure of trade in developing countries. In fact, the accumulation of knowledge, infrastructure, and the quality of governance all seem to determine not only what countries produce and export, but also how firms and workers produce any good.
Author | : John Elliott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
ISBN | : |
Download The Sociology of Natural Resources Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
What began as an investigation of the various aspects of pollution, evolved into an investigation into social control and accountability on the part of free enterprise and of governments. Pollution and environmental problems are physical phenomena that are also social problems. This study is not a plea to buy back Canada (although this may be important), nor is it a tirade against governments and free enterprise -- it is a study in accountability and social control. Unless there is accountability, there is no guarantee of a better environment.
Author | : Mr.Arvind Subramanian |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2003-07-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1451856067 |
Download Addressing the Natural Resource Curse Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Some natural resources-oil and minerals in particular-exert a negative and nonlinear impact on growth via their deleterious impact on institutional quality. We show this result to be very robust. The Nigerian experience provides telling confirmation of this aspect of natural resources. Waste and poor institutional quality stemming from oil appear to have been primarily responsible for Nigeria's poor long-run economic performance. We propose a solution for addressing this resource curse which involves directly distributing the oil revenues to the public. Even with all the difficulties that will no doubt plague its actual implementation, our proposal will, at the least, be vastly superior to the status quo. At best, however, it could fundamentally improve the quality of public institutions and, as a result, durably raise long-run growth performance.