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  A complex reality: the strategic behaviour of multinational oil corporations and the new wars in Sudan

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2006

  This paper examines the factors which influence the strategic behaviours of multinational corporations (MNCs) exploiting oil resources. The study maps the operations of eight prominent MNCs in Sudan since the initial exploration of oil, through its production, to the present day structure of the oil industry.
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  Meeting the challenge of the resource curse: international experiences in managing the risks and realising the opportunities of non-renewable natural resource revenue management

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This report starts from the premise that countries endowed with non-renewable natural resources (NRNR) are faced with substantial opportunities, but also great risks.
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  Reversing the curse: five principles for beating the "natural resource curse"

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This briefing paper recognises that the presence of non-renewable natural resources (NRNR) in a country, such as oil, gas, metals and mineral commodities, can bring great risks, in the shape of economic mis-management, instability, inflation, and corruption, as well as potential opportunities.
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  Who's minding the store?: the business of private, public and civil actors in zones of conflict

  Bonn International Center for Conversion, 2006

  This briefing paper assesses the relationship between the private sector and conflicts. It examines the private sector’s involvement in violent conflicts, and introduces approaches aimed at containing the negative impact of businesses on conflict dynamics and at involving the private sector actively in crisis prevention and peace building.
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  Logging, legality and livelihoods in Papua New Guinea: synthesis of official asssesments of the large-scale logging industry

  Forest Trends, 2006

  This report summarises key findings of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government's five reports into administration and practice of the logging industry.
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  Making it work: why the Kimberley Process must do more to stop conflict diamonds

  Global Witness, 2005

  This report considers the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, an agreement set up to eliminate the trade in conflict diamonds.
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  Crude designs: the rip off of Iraq’s oil wealth

  New Economics Foundation, 2005

  This report reveals how an oil policy with origins in the US State Department is on course to be adopted in Iraq, which will allocate the majority of Iraq’s oilfields – accounting for at least 64% of the country’s oil reserves – for development by multinational oil companies.Economic projections published in the report show that the model of oil development that is being proposed will cost Iraq
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  Corporate social responsibility in the Angolan oil industry

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  This article explores the responsibilities of oil countries in the context of developing countries.
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  Nigeria ten years on: injustice and violence haunt the oil Delta

  Amnesty International, 2005

  This report by Amnesty International calls for a need to establish universally recognised standards applicable to international companies.
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  Partners in crime: the UK timber trade, Chinese sweatshops and Malaysian robber barons in Papua New Guinea’s rainforest

  Greenpeace International, 2005

  This document traces the production of Chinese hardwood and plywood from its origins in the forests of Papua New Guinea to the sweatshops of China and on to British builders and merchants.Based on investigations by Greenpeace, the document accuses the UK timber trade of fuelling illegal production of plywood and hardwood thus encouraging the destruction of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests.

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