Mineral rents and the financing of social policy
Subtitle: opportunities and challenges
By: edited by Katja Hujo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780230370906
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics; Mineral industries; Social policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics
Description: "An exploration of the implications of mineral-led wealth and the opportunities that this creates for economic and social development. The book includes theoretical and policy analyses as well as micro level country case studies, including Norway, Chile, Indonesia, Nigeria and Botswana"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Blessing or Curse?; title: PART I: THEMATIC ISSUES; title: Development and Growth in Mineral-Rich Countries; title: Economic Policy in Mineral-Rich Countries; title: Social Policy and State Revenues in Mineral-Rich Contexts; title: Institutional Change and State Capacity; title: PART II: CASE STUDIES; title: Mineral Rents and Social Development in Norway; title: Mineral Rents and Social Development in Chile; title: Mineral Wealth, Development and Social Policy in Indonesia; title: Has Botswana Beaten the Resource Curse?; title: Social Policy in a Mineral-Rich Economy: the Case of Nigeria; title: Conclusion: Options and Constraints.