Mark Essex: Investing the gains | Extractive industries and development
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 24/05/2016

Mark Essex, expert in extractive sector’s public and private sector cooperation discusses the challenge of investing the revenues from extractive indistries effectively. 

Non-renewable natural resources bring tremendous challenges for countries. Investing the assets wisely is critically important. However, many developing countries are obliged to meet the very immediate need of health care, education and infrastructure and making it incredibly hard to take a longer term view of the impacts of the investments.

0:07 The importance of investing the assets
1:27 Taking a longer term view – a difficult challenge for developing countries

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