Righting the Resource Curse

• Tác giả: Doug Porter
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 133.25 Natural things
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 293629
• Chủ đề: 1. economic growth; 2. natural resources; 3. petroleum; 4. resource curse; 5. resource dependency

Tóm tắt

The poor record of liberal reforms sponsored by the international community in postcolonial settings underscores the real politik of institutional change. What we call a 'new normal' in development policy and practice foregrounds the role of agency - leadership, networks of connectors and convenors, entrepreneurs and activists - but it has less to say about the political and economic conditions of possibility in which agents operate. The putative powers of agency seem most challenged in contexts of extreme resource dependency and the resource curse. The particular case of Edo, a state in the oil rich Niger delta region of Nigeria, illustrates the intersection of agency and structural conditions to show how 'asymmetric capabilities' can emerge to create, constrain and make possible particular reform options.