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Metals for the global energy transition: Opportunities and salutary lessons
In a series of high-level UN Roundtables , in which I participated in 2021, experts and stakeholders explored the risks and opportunities presented by the global clean energy transition...
Climate change Natural resources Economic developmentBlog
Can the electric vehicle revolution solve the climate crisis and create opportunities for developing countries? Electric vehicles (EVs) are confidently expected to decarbonize road transportation, contribute substantially to the net zero agenda, and so help to solve the climate crisis...
Climate change Natural resources Economic developmentBlog
The 2022 energy shock
The price and availability of energy is fundamental to the health of the global economy...
Natural resources Energy resources Armed conflictWorking Paper
Incorporation of offshore shell companies as an indicator of corruption risk in the extractive industriesWe show that the incorporation of offshore entities increases when oil and gas exploration licences are awarded...
Oil Extractives Natural resourcesTechnical Note
Government Revenue Dataset (2021): country notesThis technical note is the third in a series based on the UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset (GRD). The preceding notes have described in detail the variables contained within the GRD and the source selection procedures ...
GRD Government revenue Tax dataWorking Paper
Good institutions and tax revenue outcomes in resource-rich countries: When ‘good’ is not enoughDeveloping countries that experience commodity booms struggle to mobilize sustainable tax revenues...
resource rent Tax revenue InstitutionsBlog
Why do we see boom-and-bust growth in fragile and conflict-affected states?
One of the most pressing challenges in development policy is to bring about rapid, sustained, and inclusive growth in developing countries...
Fragile states Conflict Economic growthWorking Paper
Are we measuring natural resource wealth correctly?: A reconceptualization of natural resource value in the era of climate changeUnderlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are...
Natural resources Valuation environmental impactWorking Paper
Natural resources, institutions, and economic transformation in MozambiqueIn the light of Mozambique’s natural resources boom—especially its large-scale investments in mining, oil, and gas—this paper analyses the prospects for the extractive industries to contribute to economic transformation from an inst...
Economic transformation Extractive industries InstitutionsWorking Paper
From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification: A developmental approach to managing resource revenuesThe management of revenues from exhaustible natural resources involves a number of challenges...
Commodity dependence Economic development Natural resourcesWorking Paper
Investigating the fiscal resource curse: What’s China got to do with it?The term fiscal resource curse refers to countries’ inability to raise taxes from a broad base in the presence of natural resources...
China Infrastructure Natural resourcesBook Chapter
Construction and public procurement in UgandaFrom the book: Mining for Change
Construction sector Procurement Natural resourcesBook Chapter
Local content: Are there benefits for Tanzania?From the book: Mining for Change
Extractive industries Local content MiningBook Chapter
Gas in Tanzania: Adapting to new realitiesFrom the book: Mining for Change
Developing countries Institutions MacroeconomicsBook Chapter
Rowing against the current: Economic diversification in AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Mining for change
Extractive industries Natural resources DiversificationBook Chapter
Understanding the boomFrom the book: Mining for Change
Developing countries Institutions Macroeconomics