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    Petro-governance in Tanzania: opportunities and challenges

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016
    Recent significant natural gas discoveries have pushed Tanzania into the international spotlight as a new petroleum producer. How can the country ensure that its newfound wealth is translated into economic development? Much depend on the way in which the petroleum resources are governed by the country’s new petroleum legislative framework.
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    At the extremes: corruption in natural resource management revisited

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2016
    Natural resource sectors are undergoing profound changes. Resources are being extracted in more remote locations within corruption-prone developing countries than was previously the case; there is an increased proliferation of actors involved in resource extraction; and a marked shift towards renewable energy, conservation and climate change projects in developing countries.
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    Should Tanzania establish a sovereign wealth fund?

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016
    Many natural resource abundant countries have established sovereign wealth funds as part of their strategy of managing the resource wealth. This working paper by Ragnar Torvik looks into different arguments used as reasons to establish such funds, discuss how these funds are organized, and draw some policy lessons.
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    Not so great expectations: gas revenue, corruption and willingness to pay tax in Tanzania

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016
    Huge reservoirs of natural gas have been discovered offshore the southern coast of Tanzania. There are high expectations that exploitation of natural resources will substantially increase Tanzania’s national income.
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    Human rights and resource conflicts in the Amazon

    Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2015
    The Amazon comprises the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the world. Numerous indigenous peoples have traditionally inhabited this region, and 25 percent of its total land area is formally recognised as indigenous territories. Such territories are an effective means of protecting the forest.
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    Making space for women in urban governance? Leadership and claims-making in a Kerala slum

    Environment and Planning A, 2015
    This paper looks at the role of gender in the shaping and exercise of political authority. Its empirical focus is a slum in central Trivandrum, Kerala's capital city, which is undergoing a phased process of formalisation and rebuilding funded through a flagship Indian national programme, the JNNURM.
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    Corruption and state-corporate crime in fisheries

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    This U4 Issue paper describes corruption in the fisheries sector through the lens of state-corporate crime. It presents a case study from Senegal where Russian, European and Asian fishing firms, supported by their home governments, gained access to overfished stocks that are vital to local food security and the artisanal fishing sector.
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    By the gun or by the bribe: Firm size, environmental governance and corruption among mining companies in Guatemala

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    This U4 Issue discusses the corruption risks faced by mining companies in Guatemala, with a particular focus on the risks faced by small, “junior” mining companies primarily engaged in exploration.
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    A serene look at the SDGs

    Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2015
    Almost two years in the making, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed by UN member states in August 2015. Before they are called ‘ground breaking’, ‘momentous’ or ‘historic’, a dispassionate look at the SDGs may be warranted. Conceptually, the development agenda is becoming more holistic and the SDGs contain more areas of concern.
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    African emerging powers

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014
    Once considered almost solely a site of poverty and conflict, sub-Saharan Africa and perceptions of it have gradually been changing. Today, African states have become important actors in international affairs, with a number considered as emerging powers.

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