Resource Curse Thesis: Nigerian Experience of Oil Theft

After Peak Oil: Who Escapes the Resource Curse?*

Given the discovery of resource wealth, which factors account for future economic success and which factors hinder success? This case study compares two countries which discovered oil wealth in the late 1960s: Ecuador and Norway. The analysis gives the economic and political context and then compares three bodies of resource curse literature that relate to economic success. The study ultimately...

Managed care in a low-resource economy-the Nigerian experience.

Rentier peace or resource curse? The ambiguous effects of oil wealth and oil dependency on violent conflict

The 'paradox of plenty' and the 'resource curse' hypotheses claim that abundance in natural resources, particularly oil, encourages civil war through a number of causal mechanisms. Natural resources provide both motive and opportunity for conflict, rent seeking slows down growth and renders state institutions weak thus creating indirect causes of violent conflict. Contrarily, the theory of the ...

Oil for health in sub-Saharan Africa: health systems in a 'resource curse' environment

BACKGROUND In a restricted sense, the resource curse is a theory that explains the inverse relationship classically seen between dependence on natural resources and economic growth. It defines a peculiar economic and political environment, epitomized by oil extraction in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS Based on secondary research and illustrations from four oil-rich geographical areas (the Niger ...

PRELUDE TO THE RESOURCE CURSE: OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN CENTRAL ASIA AND BEYOND By