Title Governance, conflict, and natural resources in Africa : understanding the role of foreign investment actors / Hany Gamil Besada

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Understanding Conflict and Resource Management -- Studying Resource Management and the Role of Foreign Actors -- Ghana: The Transformative Potential of Hydrocarbon Resources -- Sierra Leone: From Blood Minerals to Development Minerals? -- Ethiopia: Land Distribution as Developmental Tool Summary "A country's abundant natural resources may serve as a curse or a blessing, with the outcome often dependent on prevailing governance structures and experience managing these assets. Despite natural resource advantages, many African countries have failed to transform their enormous economic potential and wealth into tangible benefits such as sustainable socio-economic development, human security, or peace. Governance, Conflict, and Natural Resources in Africa reevaluates the role that foreign state-owned and private-sector actors play in resource-rich states--whether stable, post-conflict, or fragile--in sub-Saharan Africa. Through research and an analysis of in-depth interviews with local stakeholders in Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia, Hany Besada explains how foreign state-owned and private sector corporations have contributed to economic growth at both the national and local levels in different resource-rich countries. This book reveals the unique challenges and opportunities created by these investors, demonstrating that adoption policies in business practices and operations have the potential to generate sustainable development and positive economic transformation. Governance, Conflict, and Natural Resources in Africa puts forward a novel framework for understanding the role of private economic actors in extractive industries in Africa and sheds new light on foreign private-sector contributions to capacity building and economic development."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Africa African Studies Conflict management Economic policy Ethnic Studies Investments, Foreign Natural resources Political science Public Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 24, 2021) Subject Natural resources -- Africa Investments, Foreign -- Africa Conflict management -- Africa POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy Conflict management Investments, Foreign Natural resources Africa Form Electronic book ISBN 0228007070 9780228007081 0228007089 9780228007074

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