• Ghana fant olje - kan det gå bra? 

      Amundsen, Inge (Others, 2012-11-28)
      (Op-ed.) Ghana found oil in 2011 - in modest quantities. With its good management and good governance, there is reason to believe Ghana will avoid falling into the "resource curse" trap.
    • Mozambique: A political economy analysis 

      Orre, Aslak Jangård; Rønning, Helge (NUPI political economy reports, Research report, 2017-01-01)
      In 2017, Mozambique was at its most critical moment since the end of the civil war, in a crisis-like cocktail of political, economic and social problems. This report uses a political economy analysis to shed light on ...
    • Natural resource wealth, conflict, and peacebuilding 

      Samset, Ingrid (Synthesis Series, Research report, 2009-02-02)
      What connections exist between natural resource wealth and violent conflict? What do such connections imply for policies to build peace in resource-rich areas? This synthesis takes stock of what social science research has ...
    • Participation, representation and taxation: why collect taxes in oil rich Angola 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (Conference object, 2011-06-01)
    • Petroleum fund in Tanzania? Other alternatives may be better 

      Torvik, Ragnar (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 10, Report, 2016-07-01)
      The Government of Tanzania is looking for the best policies and institutional designs to turn future petroleum revenues into welfare, development and jobs. This Brief argues that the Tanzanian society will benefit more by ...
    • Should Tanzania establish a sovereign wealth fund? 

      Torvik, Ragnar (CMI Working Paper WP 2016:5, Working paper, 2016-07-01)
      Abstract Many natural resource abundant countries have established sovereign wealth funds as part of their strategy of managing the resource wealth. The paper looks into different arguments used as reasons to establish ...
    • Tanzania as a future petro-state: Prospects and challenges 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Mmari, Donald; Matola, Fred (Conference object, 2014-11-04)
    • The tax systems in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia: capacity and constraints 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Heggstad, Kari K. (CMI Report R 2011:3, Research report, 2011-06-01)
      The purpose of this study is to systematise and analyse existing knowledge of the capacity and constraints of the tax systems in selected African countries, and to advice Norwegian authorities on how this knowledge can be ...
    • Trading in corruption: Evidence and mitigation measures for corruption in the trading of oil and minerals 

      Longchamp, Olivier; Perrot, Nathalie (U4 Issue 2017:6, Research report, 2017-06-01)
      Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ total public revenues. Despite their importance, however, such sales have received ...
    • Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania 

      Cappelen, Alexander; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Mmari, Donald; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization vol. 183, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-01)
      Corruption is considered an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. Based on a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania, this paper studies how the salience of future natural resource revenues shapes ...