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Uganda’s nascent oil sector: Revenue generation, investor-stakeholder alignment, and public policy

This paper discusses the political economy of oil in Uganda since the announcement of its discovery in 2006. It focuses on the dynamics of oil revenue generation (pre-commercial production) and expenditure, investor-stakeholder contestation (i.e...

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The boom, the bust, and the dynamics of oil resource management in Ghana

From the book: Mining for Change

Oil Petroleum revenues Diversification
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Conclusions

From the book: Extractive Industries

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Extractives for development: Introduction and ten main messages

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Extractive Industries: The Management of Resources as a Driver of Sustainable Development

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...

Resource revenues Climate change Mining
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The boom, the bust, and the dynamics of oil resource management in Ghana

Oil resources are neither a curse nor a blessing. The sound management of these resources can make them beneficial or otherwise...

Oil Petroleum revenues Diversification
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Are taxes good for your health?

The global framework for financing development, adopted in 2015, places great emphasis on mobilizing domestic resources to finance the Sustainable Development Goals, which include universal healthcare. In a recent paper Reeves et al...

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