Beyond the Resource Curse /

Beyond the Resource Curse / / ed. by Taleh Ziyadov, Brenda Shaffer.

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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 resource-rich countries h...

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MitwirkendeR:
Auty, Richard M.,
Barma, Naazneen H.,
Bratvold, Reidar,
Clawson, Patrick,
Engen, Ole Andreas,
Frankel, Jeffrey,
Ismayilov, Murad,
Jaffe, Amy M.,
Jones, Richard,
Langhelle, Oluf,
Mojtahed, Ahmad,
Nurmammadov, Elkin,
Sabonis-Helf, Theresa,
Shaffer, Brenda,
Soltanov, Elnur,
Spector, Regine A.,
Ziyadov, Taleh,
HerausgeberIn:
Shaffer, Brenda,
Ziyadov, Taleh,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Economics and Infrastructures of Energy Exporters
  • 1. The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey
  • 2. Sometimes the Grass Is Indeed Greener: The Successful Use of Energy Revenues
  • 3. Is There a Policy Learning Curve? Trinidad and Tobago and the 2004- 8 Hydrocarbon Boom
  • 4. The Illusion of Unlimited Supply: Iran and Energy Subsidies
  • 5. Challenges Facing Central Banks in Oil- Exporting Countries: The Case of Azerbaijan
  • 6. Power to the Producers: The Challenges of Electricity Provision in Major Energy- Exporting States
  • Part II: Energy Exports, Society, and Politics
  • 7. The Impact of Energy Resources on Nation- and State- Building: The Contrasting Cases of Azerbaijan and Georgia
  • 8. Education Reform in Energy- Exporting States: The Post- Soviet Experience in Comparative Perspective
  • 9. Is Norway Really Norway?
  • Part III: Energy Exporters in the International Po liti cal System
  • 10. Energy Exporters and the International Energy Agency
  • 11. Resource Nationalism and Oil Development: Profit or Peril?
  • 12. Natural Resources, Domestic Instability, and International Conflicts
  • 13. Petroleum, Governance, and Fragility: The Micro- Politics of Petroleum in Postconflict States
  • Conclusion: Constant Perils, Policy Responses, and Lessons to Be Learned
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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