Confronting the curse : the economics and geopolitics of natural resource governance / / Cullen S. Hendrix and Marcus Noland

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786673303321
• Autore: Hendrix Cullen S.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, District of Columbia : , : Peterson Institute for International Economics, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-88132-677-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.7
• Soggetti: Natural resources - Management; Natural resources - Politcal aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Natural Resources and Economic Performance""; ""Declining Terms of Trade""; ""Commodity Price Volatility""; ""Resource Pulls and Crowding Out""; ""Dutch Disease""; ""Assessing the Resource Curse""; ""Conclusion""; ""Natural Resources and Domestic Politics""; ""Resource Curse and Political Democracy""; ""Resource Curse and State Capacity""; ""Resource Curse and Political Instability""; ""Attributes of the Resource""; ""Social, Political, and Economic Contexts""; ""Conclusion""; ""Natural Resources and International Affairs""""Institutional Integration""; ""Conflict Behavior""; ""Conclusion""; ""China as a Major Importer and Investor""; ""Outward Foreign Direct Investment""; ""Development Assistance""; ""Arms Transfers""; ""Conclusion""; ""Good Governance Initiatives""; ""Conflict Diamonds and the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme""; ""Diamond Development Initiative""; ""Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative""; ""Conflict Minerals""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""What Is to Be Done?""; ""Microeconomic Approaches to Managing Instability""; ""Risk-Sharing Approaches""""Macroeconomic Approaches to Managing Instability""; ""Final Thoughts""; ""Appendices""; ""Appendix A""; ""Appendix B""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Other Publications from the ; Peterson Institute for International Economics""; ""Working Papers""; ""Policy Briefs""; ""Policy Analyses in International Economics Series""; ""Books""; ""Special Reports""; ""Works in Progress""; ""Distributors Outside the US""; ""Back Cover""