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Natural resources and violent conflict

Contributor(s): Bannon, Ian | Collier, PaulMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2003Description: xviii, 409 p. : illustrationsISBN: 0821355031 (pbk.); 9780821355039Subject(s): Natural resources | Civil warDDC classification: 333.7 Online resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

Natural resources and conflict: what we can do / Ian Bannon and Paul Collier -- The natural resource curse: how wealth can make you poor / Michael Ross -- Who gets the money? Reporting resource revenues / Philip Swanson, Mai Oldgard, and Leiv Lunde -- Where did it come from? Commodity tracking systems / Corene Crossin, Gavin Hayman, and Simon Taylor -- Follow the money: the finance of illicit resource extraction / Jonathan M. Winer and Trifin J. Roule -- Getting it done: instruments of enforcement / Philippe Le Billon -- Attracting reputable companies to risky environments: petroleum and mining companies / John Bray -- Dampening price shocks / Patrick Guillaumont and Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney.

Summary: Research into the causes of conflict and civil war finds that developing countries' economic dependence on natural resources and commodities is associated with the risk of conflict. This book presents reports and case studies that explore what the international community can do to reduce this risk.

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Natural resources and conflict: what we can do / Ian Bannon and Paul Collier --
The natural resource curse: how wealth can make you poor / Michael Ross --
Who gets the money? Reporting resource revenues / Philip Swanson, Mai Oldgard, and Leiv Lunde --
Where did it come from? Commodity tracking systems / Corene Crossin, Gavin Hayman, and Simon Taylor --
Follow the money: the finance of illicit resource extraction / Jonathan M. Winer and Trifin J. Roule --
Getting it done: instruments of enforcement / Philippe Le Billon --
Attracting reputable companies to risky environments: petroleum and mining companies / John Bray --
Dampening price shocks / Patrick Guillaumont and Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney.

Research into the causes of conflict and civil war finds that developing countries' economic dependence on natural resources and commodities is associated with the risk of conflict. This book presents reports and case studies that explore what the international community can do to reduce this risk.

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