Considering the impact of oil politics on nation building in the Republic of South Sudan

Pedersen, Ascha; Bazilian, Morgan

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2014.07.007

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“…Oil is garnering the source of nearly the entire basis of the accounting for of South Sudan’s government revenues and its gross domestic product. 49 , 50 In 2012, the Government of South Sudan suspended oil production and export, representing 98% of the country’s revenue. This suspension meant a revenue loss of about $650 million each month, with negative impacts on the health and other sectors.…”

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Community Participation in Primary Healthcare in the South Sudan Boma Health Initiative: A Document Analysis

Belaid

Sarmiento

Dimiti

et al. 2022

Int J Health Policy Manag

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Background: Community participation is central to primary health care, yet there is little evidence of how this works in conflict settings. In 2016, South Sudan's Ministry of Health launched the Boma Health Initiative to improve primary care services through community participation. Methods: We conducted a document analysis to examine how well the Boma Health Initiative policy addressed community participation in its policy formulation. We reviewed other policy documents and published literature to provide background context and supplementary data. We used a deductive thematic analysis that followed Rifkin and colleagues' community participation framework to assess the Boma Health Initiative policy. Results: The Boma Health Initiative planners included inputs from communities without details on how the needs assessment was conducted at the community level, what needs were considered, and from which community. The intended role of communities was to implement the policy under local leadership. There was no information on how the Initiative might strengthen or expand local women's leadership. Official documents did not contemplate local power relations or address gender imbalance. The policy approached households as consumers of health services. Conclusions: Although the Boma Health Initiative advocated community participation to generate awareness, increase acceptability, access to services and ownership, the policy document did not include community participation during policy cycle.

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confidence: 99%

Community Participation in Primary Healthcare in the South Sudan Boma Health Initiative: A Document Analysis

Belaid

Sarmiento

Dimiti

et al. 2022

Int J Health Policy Manag

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“…The per capita gross domestic product growth including the third highest oil reserves within the sub-Saharan Africa, the South Sudan Republic is needed to proceed having the ways to raise its per capita GDP as well as put the nation on the road to being self-sufficient between 2022 and 2050. This is motivated by the South Africa's Strategic Fuel Fund, which is creates a positive mood in line with the investment around South Sudan empowered by the efficient peace deal which led to stronger ties with the Sudan as well as the discovery of a number of reserves by the China National Petroleum Corporation exploration, revealing that the government needs a stronger interest within the licensing rounds within the near future (Pedersen & Bazilian, 2014).…”

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What Does the Future Hold for Oil in South Sudan Range from 2022/2050?

Akuendit

2022

East Afr. j. bus. econ.

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The aim of this paper is to find out the what the future holds in terms of oil in South Sudan. It looks at the economy that aggregated comprising of two major sectors of both oil and aid dominating the entire economy. Oil is a major player within the South Sudan Economy though major South Sudan residents nevertheless rely on other parts of the Economy for example in agricultural sector, livestock, commerce, and others make their income from employment income. Oil as well as aid is important since they are major sources for foreign exchanges and tax revenue. A variety of service industries also exists like the banking industry, insurance industry and other construction industries. The future of South Sudan is hence anchored on oil and this paper tends to explore on what the future holds for South Sudan in the Oil industry.

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“…Some empirical studies show that some states with high shares of natural resource exports are having lower economic growth than those without the same resources (Frynas and Paulo, 2007). Although rents on the resources can provide crucial potential and income for a country, they can also be a source of mismanagement (Pedersen and Bazilian, 2014). This phenomenon has led to the notion of the “resource curse”, which can be explained through the sub-phenomena of Dutch disease, rent-seeking, patronage and the destruction of institutions (Kolstad et al , 2009; Reed 2002).…”

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A business network perspective on local content in emerging African petroleum nations

Owusu

Vaaland

2016

IJESM

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Purpose The paper aims to identify and analyze the actors and their interrelationships in realizing local content objectives in African oil- and gas-producing nations. Design/methodology/approach The paper includes content analysis of relevant research papers and reports within the oil and gas industry, local content and industrial networks published between 2000 and 2014. Findings The study developed a framework that integrates the literature on local content with the industrial network theory. The framework classifies the various critical actors for achieving local content, proposing that achieving local content requires the development of business network links and a resource alignment among local companies and institutions and foreign companies and institutions, in addition to multinational oil companies. Research limitations/implications The framework of this study contributes to an emerging theory on local content by integrating the industrial network theory, which provides specific frameworks for analyzing embedded business environments, along with the previous economic and legal-based studies of local content achievement. Practical implications The way the relevant actors organize their resources and business networks provides potential for local content in an emerging oil and gas industry in Africa. Originality/value The paper is one of the few to integrate studies of local content with the industrial network theory. The literature review provides a summary window of the research on the subject over a 14-year period.

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Considering the impact of oil politics on nation building in the Republic of South Sudan

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

Community Participation in Primary Healthcare in the South Sudan Boma Health Initiative: A Document Analysis

Community Participation in Primary Healthcare in the South Sudan Boma Health Initiative: A Document Analysis

What Does the Future Hold for Oil in South Sudan Range from 2022/2050?

A business network perspective on local content in emerging African petroleum nations

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