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Optimal local content for extractive industries

Tanzania is rich with natural resources, which have significant potential to contribute to the country’s economic development. Several laws recently passed in Tanzania are dedicated to establishing linkages between foreign firms in natural resource...

Working Paper
Understanding the boom

There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper...

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Gas revenues will come and go in Mozambique – now is the time to think how to use them wisely
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Mozambique is still an agriculture-based economy. Huge offshore gas fields have been discovered in the country and plans for gas projects are in the...

Working Paper
Climate change and the extractives sector

The extractives industries must adjust their operations to shifting patterns of demand for oil, natural gas, and coal together with metals and minerals – as policies and new technologies encourage progress along low-carbon pathways in energy...

Book Chapter
The role of oil and gas in the economic development of the global economy

Part of Book Extractive Industries

Working Paper
Looking ahead to COP27—from climate pledges to action

The global energy transition is happening, but too slowly to limit climate change to acceptable levels, for diverse reasons. Carbon emissions policies and measures focus too little on absolute emission targets and too much on relative measures such...

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Gas in Tanzania

Part of Book Mining for Change

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Local content

Part of Book Mining for Change

Policy seminar
Tony Addison presents at a high-level policy dialogue in Maputo
27 March 2019 – 28 March 2019
The Bank of Mozambique , Maputo, Mozambique
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The role of oil and gas in the development of the global economy

This paper is concerned with the role of oil and gas in the development of the global economy. Its focus is on the context in which oil and gas producers in both established and developing countries must frame their policies in order to optimize the...

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