Zambia: Governance and Natural Resources

Tourism And Natural Resources

Self-Governance and Forest Resources

Forest resources share attributes with many other resource systems that make difficult their governance and management in a sustainable, efficient, and equitable manner. While some ‘forests’ are small enough that fencing them or protecting their borders from intrusion is relatively easy, excluding beneficiaries from access and use of most forests is costly. The difficulty of exclusion creates t...

Ethics and Participation in Natural Resources Protection

Background: Public participation in decisions regarding natural resources is the easiest way to ‎preserve these resources. It seems that having human of conservation ethics of natural resources, ‎has affect on their participation in the preservation of natural resources. This survey research was ‎done to investigate the relationship between conservation ethics of natural resources and ‎particip...

Political Accountability and Fiscal Governance: Evidence from Tanzania and Zambia

Does a government’s source of revenue explain its policy choices? The most common approach contends that policy variation results from differences in political institutions. We argue that a government’s source of revenue also strongly affects its expenditures, independent of political institutions. Using local government budget data from Tanzania and Zambia, we find that local governments devot...

Fiscal Governance and Public Services: Evidence from Tanzania and Zambia

Does a government’s source of revenue explain its policies? The predominate view in development studies contends that policy variation results directly from institutional variation. Building on a literature which we label fiscal theories of governance, we argue that a government’s sources of revenue strongly affect its public expenditures, independent of institutions. Using data from local gove...