Crude days ahead? OIL and the resource curse in Sudan

Saving Ghana from Its Oil: A Critical Assessment of Preparations so Far Made

“…The low state capacity, government usage and abuse of discretion, corruption, and lack of transparency that have characterized the Nigerian oil industry, undermined democratic rule, and degenerated into conflict are the same features that have characterized Sudan's oil industry and that of Equatorial Guinea (McSherry 1996;Patey 2010). Meanwhile, other naturalresource-rich countries, like Norway (oil) and to some extent Botswana (diamonds), had strong and well-functioning state institutions, with relatively decentralized government structures at the time of their oil boom.…”

Global political economy and Frontier economies in Africa: Implications from the oil and gas industry in Ghana

“…(2) identify existing gaps and (3) demonstrate how such gaps can be filled in future. The review has shown that Ghana is not a basket case unlike the so-called pariah cases in Africa, such as Sudan or Nigeria, if we are to accept the findings of the research from such countries (see Patey, 2010 for Sudan and, for Nigeria, see Sala-iMartin and Subramanian, 2012), although there are grounds to be cautious of such generalisations too (see, for example, Nour, 2011 on Sudan and Adésínà, 2012 on Nigeria). Compared with the frontier oil countries too, notably Uganda (Alstine et al, 2014;Bybee and Johannes, 2014;Holterman, 2014;Sturesson and Zobel, 2015), Ghana's experiences are rather different.…”

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

“…The CPA also decreed that oil production was to be governed by a National Petroleum Commission and to be based on the existing oil leases granted by the national government prior to the CPA (Government of Sudan and SPLM/A, 2005, §4). This meant that the north and south of Sudan were to ''jointly market and sell the oil'' (p. 22) (Patey, 2010).…”