Report

Extractive Industries - The Management of Resources as a Driver of Sustainable Development

Publisher: United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

June 2018

Edited by Tony Addison and Alan Roe

Brings together contributions from experts in the field from a wide variety of backgrounds to provide an authoritative view on each topic
Covers the economic dimensions of extractives and development, as well as their social and environmental impacts
Offers realistic recommendations to improve the extractives sector role in development
Delivers an objective and balanced steer on a variety of often contentious issues
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Part I: Overview
1: Extractives for development: introduction and ten main messages, Tony Addison and Alan Roe

Part II: Minerals and Oil and Gas in the Global Context
2: Dependence on extractive industries in lower-income countries: the statistical tendencies, Alan Roe and Samantha Dodd
3: Mining's contribution to low- and middle-income economies, Magnus Ericsson and Olof Löf
4: The role of oil and gas in the economic development of the global economy, Paul Stevens

Part III: The Academic Literature and the Resources Curse
5: The curse of the one-size-fits-all fix: re-evaluating what we know about extractives and economic development, Glada Lahn and Paul Stevens
6: Political economy and governance, Evelyn Dietsche
7: New industrial policy and the extractive industries, Evelyn Dietsche

Part IV: Policy Challenges in the Macro-Management of Extractives
8: The macroeconomic management of natural resources, Mark Henstridge and Alan Roe
9: Extractive revenues and government spending: short- versus long-term considerations, Frederick van der Ploeg and Anthony J. Venables
10: The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in Chile: scope and limits, Andres Solimano and Diego Calderón Guajardo
11: Oil discovery and macroeconomic management: The recent Ghanaian experience, Mahamudu Bawumia and Håvard Halland

Part V: National Institutions of Extractives Management
12: The regulation of extractives: an overview, Tony Addison and Alan Roe
13: Regulatory structures and challenges to developmental extractives: Some practical observations from Ghana, Toni Aubynn
14: The taxation of extractive industries: mining, James M. Otto
15: Doubling down: national oil companies as instruments of risk and reward, Patrick R.P. Heller
16: Protecting the environment during and after resource extraction, Ruth Greenspan Bell
17: Enhancing sustainable development from oil, gas, and mining: from an 'all of government' approach to Partnerships for Development, Kathryn McPhail

Part VI: International Regulatory Concerns and Structures
18: Towards contribution analysis, R. Anthony Hodge
19: The role of governance and international norms for managing natural resources, James Cust
20: Oil and gas companies and the management of social and environmental impacts and issues: the evolution of the industry's approach, Kathryn Tomlinson
21: The role of gender in the extractive industries, Catherine Macdonald
22: Climate change and the extractives sector, Tony Addison

Part VII: Leveraging the Direct Impacts of Extractives Into Sustainable Development
23: Framework: the channels for indirect impacts, Alan Roe and Jeffery Round
24: Local content, supply chains, and shared infrastructure, Olle Östensson
25: Downstream activities: the possibilities and the realities, Olle Östensson and Anton Löf
26: Choices for spending government revenue: new African oil, gas, and mining economies, Sophie Witter and Maja Jakobsen
27: Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance: lessons from Nigeria, Joanna Buckley, Neil McCulloch, and Nicholas Travis

Part VIII: Capturing Economic and Social Benefits at Community Level
28: The role of participation in sustainable community development programmes in the extractives industries, Catherine McDonald
29: Approaches to supporting local and community development: the view from Zambia, Angel Mondoloka
30: Approaches to supporting local and community development: Brazil and the Vale SA model of corporate interaction, Liesel Filgueiras, Andreia Rabetim, and Isabel Aché
31: Capturing economic and social benefits at the community level: opportunities and obstacles for civil society, Keith Slack
32: How do we legislate for improved community development?, James M. Otto
33: Conclusions, Tony Addison and Alan Roe