Extractives: Opportunities and Challenges for Development
Taken together, factors such as these have led some to describe the outcomes as the resource curse or the paradox of plenty (Auty 1993; Karl 1999). 6 This linkage of oil, gas, and mining development with negative outcomes has become common currency among policy makers, academics, civil society members, and the media. 7 Probably due to the very large rents in the oil sector, it