Tackling the Resource Curse: The Role of Democracy in Achieving Sustainable Development in Resource-Rich Countries

Ahmadov, Anar K.; Guliyev, Farid

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“…Its authors explored six country case studies across four continents. These included five from the global South, and one -Norwayfrom the global North (Ahmadov and Guliyev 2016). It confirmed:…”

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Introduction: Natural Resource Justice

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2017

Gender & Development

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The rural poor in developing countries remain the most directly dependent on natural resources for their food and livelihood security (World Bank/FAO/ IFAD 2009, 423), while the livelihoods of 2.5 billion people depend wholly or partly on agriculture (FAO 2016, 1). Human stability and security depend on sustainable access to natural resources. The natural environment not only contributes to existing livelihoods, but offers a powerful frame of reference for human life, permeating the realms of spirituality and culture. It also provides a form of insurance against crisis for rural people, contributing to their resilience. 1 Yet the same lands and waters that communities living in poverty depend on can offer the promise of great wealth. Millions of the world's poorest people live in countries with valuable and abundant natural resources like oil, gas, and minerals. Many others live in or around forests that can be cut down for large-scale cultivation of biofuels, or in areas suitable for dam construction and the sale of water downstream. While these offer potential development benefits, the reality is that the benefits are limited, unequally shared, and many of the natural resources are non-renewable. For the people who depend most on the lands, waters and forests for daily survival, and see little or no profit from the sale of natural resources, the outlook is often bleak. Natural resources are lost to them, or become so polluted they are no longer useable. Such changes not only affect local communities, but also the whole of humanity. The articles in this issue are written by a range of development researchers, practitioners, and feminist activists. Today's feminist natural resource perspectives have their roots in the research and activism of feminist environmentalists, stretching back for many decades. 'Ecofeminism' provided a pioneering critique of neo-liberal economic development policies in the 1970s, linking gender equality to sustainable development. 2 In Latin America, 65 per cent of the 185 human rights defenders murdered in 2015 were working on environmental issues, including the activist Berta Caceres in Honduras, whose activism and murder in 2016 attracted international attention (Guevara-Rosas 2016). Gender equality and women's rights are core to attaining sustainable, just human development, and hence they are also key to securing natural resource justice. Authors highlight the effect extractive projects can have on women's rights and gender inequality. They discuss the strategies of women's natural resource rights defenders to hold governments, the

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Gender & Development

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“…These conventional measures may refer to many overlapping aspects that assess a country's overall performance on governance: bureaucratic competency, rule of law, extent of corruption, checks and balances, and protection of property rights. Ahmadov and Guliyev (2016) point out that the use of such indicators makes it difficult to identify exactly which particular institutions-whether democratic political institutions or merely institutions of higher quality-are important for mitigating the curse.…”

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Ардчиллын Тэмцэл Сорилтын Жилүүдэд: Монгол Ба Дэлхийн Улс Орнууд Туршлагажиж Эхэлсэн Нь

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Энэхүү боть нь эдгээр хүнд хэцүү цаг үеийн ардчилсан тэмцлийн янз бүрийн талыг нь шинжлэн судлав. Үүний эхний хэсэгт нь Хүйтэн дайны дараах ардчилагдах үйл явцын хамгийн бага судлагдсан хэсэг болох Монгол улс дахь ардчилагдах үйл явцыг судлав. Хоёрдугаар хэсэгт дэлхийн бусад улс орнуудад өрнөсөн ардчилсан тэмцлийг хамарсан дүн шинжилгээг өргөжүүлж, ялангуяа олборлох салбараас эдийн засгийн хувьд хамааралтай байдаг Монгол болон бусад улс орнуудын хувьд гол асуудал болоод байгаа байгалийн баялгийн засаглалыг авч үзлээ. Энэхүү номыг бүтээхэд хувь нэмэр оруулагчдыг олон өөр улс орнууд, салбарууд, мэргэжлийн үе шатуудын хүрээнд олж сонгосон билээ. Тэд олон янзын алсын харааны өнцгөөс ардчиллын дутуу судлагдсан талуудыг тодорхой болгохын тулд, маш харилцан бие биенээ нөхсөн байдлаар, өөр өөр арга барил, аргачлалуудыг ашиглан ажилласан байна.

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“…The US is still unique in being the only country in the world that operates private ownership on subsoil resources. State ownership is viewed as a major cause of the "resource curse" -the observed economic and political underperformance of countries rich in natural resources (especially fossil fuels) (Ross, 1999, 319; for a review of the "resource curse" literature, see Ahmadov and Guliyev, 2016).…”

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Trump’s “America first” energy policy, contingency and the reconfiguration of the global energy order

Guliyev

2020

Energy Policy

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The global energy system is in transition to a new energy order characterized by the emergence of the United States as a net oil exporter, the shale revolution and the gradual shift towards low-carbon sources and renewables. The shale boom in the US was a game changer, as was the election of Donald Trump as US president. Trump pushed an ambitious "America first" agenda aimed at transforming the US into a global energy superpower. The purpose of this article is two-fold: first, it outlines the key pillars of the emerging global energy order. Second, it underscores the role of contingent events, a factor neglected by some previous studies because of their reliance on what A.O.Hirschman (1970) termed "paradigmatic thinking". The recent transition in the international energy order is an outcome of two paramount, yet largely unanticipated events: the shale revolution in the US and Trump's neomercantilist and unilateralist economic policies. While contingencies are an inherent feature of social reality, the scenario approach can be a useful heuristic for dealing with uncertainties. The article concludes by discussing the implications of these developments for global energy governance.

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Tackling the Resource Curse: The Role of Democracy in Achieving Sustainable Development in Resource-Rich Countries

Cited by 10 publications

References 94 publications

Introduction: Natural Resource Justice

Introduction: Natural Resource Justice

Ардчиллын Тэмцэл Сорилтын Жилүүдэд: Монгол Ба Дэлхийн Улс Орнууд Туршлагажиж Эхэлсэн Нь

Trump’s “America first” energy policy, contingency and the reconfiguration of the global energy order

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