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daniel gilbert and Kari Lipschutz are now friends Jan 30

Kari Lipschutz commented on Kari Lipschutz's blog post 'Measuring Perceptions in Tanzania: OPM's Work on Local Level Impacts of Mining'

Dear Rajiv, Your research does indeed sound fascinating and I would love to hear more about your methodology, particularly with respect to participatory research methods and how you went about identifying representative samples/key informants within…

Jan 27

Rajiv Maher commented on Kari Lipschutz's blog post 'Measuring Perceptions in Tanzania: OPM's Work on Local Level Impacts of Mining'

Dear Kari, I found your post most interesting and was glad to see others are also examining perceptions of local communities in the extractives sector. I feel that it is an area that often gets overlooked, despite substantial CSR related investment…

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Kari Lipschutz updated their profile Jan 25

Measuring Perceptions in Tanzania: Local Level Impacts of Mining

Oxford Policy Management’s strong reputation for executing wide scale household surveys in sub-Saharan Africa and in South Asia is increasingly being applied to OPM’s extractive industries work, where policy discussions surrounding natural resource exploitation all too often take place using very ‘macro’ indicators for success – such as exploring how governments can secure the largest segment possible of tax revenues. OPM recently saw an opportunity to merge these two areas of expertise to…See More

Blog post by Kari Lipschutz Jan 24

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Kari Lipschutz left a comment for Ahmed Finoh

Thank you for your note, Finoh. In fact, I plan on doing something very similar to what you suggest in your comment. I will certainly be using political economy analysis as a primary tool in my work. Further, I am considering a few case studies…

Jan 23

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Kari: I wish you can re-orient your research study, in consultation with your faculty advisor, to consider the natural resource curse as a product of the political economy. The legal perspective for why in Africa, natural resources are a curse is a…

Jan 21

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Organisation: Oxford Policy Management, TAMNEAC

Type of Organisation: Business, Academia

Website: http://www.opml.co.uk

Job Title: Consultant/Research Fellow

About My Work: Kari Lipschutz is a TAMNEAC Early Stage Research Fellow (http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.363130.en) and consultant, focusing her research on the relationship between natural resource management regimes and conflict. She is pursuing doctoral study at the School of Oriental and African studies, focusing on analyzing the natural resource curse from a socio-legal perspective.

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

Intererested in job/consulting opportunities: yes

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Posted on January 24, 2012 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

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At 8:25pm on January 21, 2012, Ahmed Finoh said…: Kari:

I wish you can re-orient your research study, in consultation with your faculty advisor, to consider the natural resource curse as a product of the political economy. The legal perspective for why in Africa, natural resources are a curse is a function of political economy while the social pesrpective is an after-the-fact issue. Consider the cases of Nigeria and Norway or Botswana (diamonds) and Sierra Leone.

Good luck in your studies.

Eng. Ahmed Finoh, MPA

Durham/North Carolina/USA