Governing natural resources for Africa's development /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group,
2017.
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| Series: | International political economy of new regionalisms series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Foreword 1 ; Foreword 2; Introduction; The framework; Chapter summaries; References; Part I African content; 1 The Africa Mining Vision as a model for natural resource governance in Africa; Introduction; The genesis of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV); The AMV key tenets; AMV strategies; The AMV challenges; Legacy and capacity dearth; The regulatory dilemma; Sharing mineral wealth and benefits with equity; The path towards good policy responses
- The AMV Theory of ChangeThe AMV priority actions; Strengthening domestic accountability and managing expectations; Improving the level and quality of the resource potential data; Institutional strengthening and capacity building, particularly on contract negotiations; Promoting linkages and diversification; Addressing Africa's infrastructure constraints; A word on implementation; The next leg: country mining visions; Staying the course when commodity prices are low: a daunting challenge; The AMV success factors; Notes; References
- 2 Capacity development for natural resource management: Findings from the 2013 Africa Capacity Indicators Report Introduction; Why measure capacity; New dispensation in NRM in Africa; Emergence of a revised landscape and possibilities; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 The other resource curse: Extractives as development panacea ; Introduction; Extractives levels of analysis and conceptual tools; Governance and regulatory levels of analysis; Regulatory objectives: value maximization, mitigation, and economic catalyst objectives; Four contradictions: tensions between mitigation and growth
- The extractives value pyramid: what gets produced where, when and why?Evolution of EI regulatory complexity across SSA; Post-colonial resource nationalism (1950s-1980s); Liberalization and early sustainable development (1986-1997); Crisis, consolidation and transition (1997-2002); The extractives commodities "super cycle" (2002-2008); Back to the future? Assertive Africa rising (2009 to present); Conclusion: from panacea to cultivation of institutions and processes; Appendix; Notes; References; Part II Governance aspects
- 4 Natural resources, global economic volatility, and Africa's growth prospectsIntroduction; Africa's recent growth experiences: commodity booms and the desire for transformation; Commodity imports; Commodity exports; The shifts in Africa's global connection and the role of commodities in recent growth performance; Understanding the natural resources, global volatility, and growth nexus: what the literature suggests; The Dutch disease; Revenue volatility; Competition over rents; Quality of institutions and policies; Commodities, global volatility, and economic growth: a review of the evidence