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Organisation (if non, specify N/A): University of Cambridge

Type of Organisation: Academia

About My Work: I am completing a PhD at the University of Cambridge, addressing fiscal apects of natural resource extraction.

Areas of interest: gold, diamonds, oil and natural gas, governance and anti-corruption, investing, environment, social accountability, contract and licensing, monitoring revenue collection, redistribution and sustainable development

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How to manage revenues from extractives? There’s a book for that!

Posted on February 8, 2017 at 1:26 0 Comments 0 Favorites

Offshore oil and rig platform. Photo: © curraheeshutter / Shutterstock.

Countries with large nonrenewable resources can benefit significantly from them, but reliance on revenues from these sources poses major challenges for policy makers. If you are a senior ministry of finance official in a resource-rich country, what are the challenges that you would face and…

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Can “Resource Financed Infrastructure” Fix the Natural Resource Curse?

Posted on September 23, 2014 at 0:23 2 Comments 1 Favorite

In Africa, estimates indicate that an annual investment of $93 billion is required to address the continent’s basic infrastructure needs – more than double the current level of investment.

The lack of productive investment of resource revenues, with spending of these revenues often heavily tilted towards…