Overcoming the ''resource curse''
Subtitle: prioritizing policy interventions in countries with large extractive industries
By: Amber Linea Moreen
Contributors: Pardee Rand Graduate School
Series: Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS) dissertation series -- [RGSD215]; Dissertation (Pardee Rand Graduate School) -- RGSD-215.
Publisher: Pardee RAND Graduate School
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Natural resources; Management; Economic conditions; Economic policy
Other titles: Prioritizing policy interventions in countries with large extractive industries
Description: Develops guidelines regarding the design and management of policies to mitigate the political and economic risks that often accompany natural resource windfalls in less-developed countries.--provided by publisher

Natural resource extraction brings with it many incentives for resource wealth to be diverted to non-productive uses. The purpose of this research is to develop contingent guidelines for state and non-state actors interested in improving the management of natural resource revenues. In particular, it seeks to distill guidelines regarding the design and management of policies to mitigate the political and economic risks often accompanying natural resource windfalls in less-developed countries, thereby enabling implementation of well-understood macroeconomic and welfare improvements in such resource-endowed countries.
Notes: Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on June 28, 2007).

"This document was submitted as a dissertation in October 2006 in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the doctoral degree in public policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.  The faculty committee that supervised and approved the dissertation consisted of Steven Popper (Chair), Robert Klitgaard, and Mark Bernstein."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-207).

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