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Does Political Resource Curse Really Exist? Evidence from the Rentier States in the Greater Middle East
(2023)
This Extractivism Policy Brief shows:
• Oil rents may affect the political regimes through influencing both defense and non-defense expenditures.
• Defense expenditures are considerably influenced by oil rents fluctuations and the quality of political system.
• The rent-seeking by incumbent autocrats may take the form of misappropriation of government revenues away from public services towards patronage.
• Being a ‘political curse’, natural resources could be detrimental to democracy and enhance regime ...
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Natural Resources, Raw Materials, and Extractivism: The Dark Side of Sustainability
(2022)
• Extractivism is the dark side of sustainability
• raw materials and primary commodities are the backbones of the global economy
• extraction and export of raw materials lead to Extractivism understood as a development model
• Extractivism is persistent, prone to crisis, and affects domestic and international constellations
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Gold Mining (artisanal gold mining): Is it an engine of development in Mauritania?
(2023)
• In 2021, Mauritania exported approximately 13 million tons of iron, 20% of which was bound for Western Europe.
• The economic structure of this country is increasingly rent based.
• The extractive sector does not act as a catalyst for the country's development. Its contribution to poverty reduc-tion remains insignificant.
• Poverty remains a significant feature of the country, ranking 157th out of 189 according to the Human Development Index in 2020.
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Petropolitics
(2023)
• The dominant trend was that oil and natural gas were first and foremost a matter of market mechanisms and competition rules, even if they interacted with politics and geopolitics.
• The WTO persisted in treating hydrocarbons as commodities like any other, ignoring both their commons character and their impact on the environment and climate.
• The conflict in Ukraine has caused an upheaval. Within a few months, Europe faced a serious threat of energy shortages.
• In a few months, the rehabilitation of coal and ...
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Bringing heterodoxy back into a world of pessimism
(2024-01-29)
In this Extractivism Occasional Papers’ volume, we brought together two first-wave scholars working on structuralism, class and development, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and Hartmut Elsenhans, and upcoming scholars – Ingrid Harvord Kvangraven, Fernando Rugitsky and Johanna Siebert – who build on structuralist thinking to present their own take on the importance of revitalising it. Our project follows the Hegelian dialectics and seeks aufheben, in the sense of learning from the past, preserving what is valuable, and ...
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Les dynamiques socio-économiques du Hirak Algérien : un facteur souvent ignoré
(2023-09)
• In 2019, Algeria experienced one of the largest popular uprisings the country has ever seen in its post-independence history: the Hirak.
• The crisis had been looming for several years, as shifts in the political elite increased. The end of the financial boom exacerbated this process.
• Between 2015 and 2018, oil and gas export revenues declined by an average of 14% per year.
• Socioeconomic factors ultimately contributed to the outbreak of the Algerian hirak.
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Argentina in the context of the global socioenvironmental crisis
(2023-07-26)
• Agro-extractivism has shaped the productive matrix during the last four decades in Argentina.
• Agro-extractivism not only does not satisfy the population's food demand, but also deepens the socio-environmental crisis, generating environmental depredation, health problems, economic concentration, and social polarization.
• To overcome the crisis of agro-extractivism in Argentina, it is necessary to transform the patterns of production, consumption and accumulation, which will require democratizing access to land ...
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Re-reading Amartya Sen from the Andes: Exploring the Ethical contributions of Indigenous Philosophies
(2015)
Over the last decade, the calls for Buen Vivir (BV)/ Sumak Kawsay (SK) that have emerged from the Andes have prompted a revival of interest in the indigenous philosophies of the region and their contributions to alternative development thinking. Both in academic and policy discussions, there is an emphasis on recovering Indigenous forms of knowledge to devise alternative paths to development. Yet, given the conceptual ambiguity of discussions of development, these efforts often appear to have ‘blended’ with more ...
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Armutsreduktion durch Partizipation?
(2006-01)
Ab 1991 verfolgte die bolivianische Sozialfondspolitik primär über eine Förderung sozialer Infrastruktur und lokaler Partizipation eine Strategie zur Reduktion von Armut. Ein 1994 in Bolivien eingeführtes Gesetz zur Volksbeteiligung, die Ley de Participación Popular, unterstützte diese Bemühungen, indem es eine partizipativ ausgerichtete Kommunalpolitik ermöglichte, welche eine stärkere Berücksichtung der lokalen Bedürfnisse sicherstellen sollte, um so die Bedarfsgerechtigkeit, Effizienz sowie Nachhaltigkeit der ...
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Searching for a substitute: Algeria and Venezuela as energy security alternatives for Europe?
(2024-01-26)
• Venezuela und Algerien sind für die Europäische Union potenzielle, zukünftige Energiepartner.
• Die EU steht vor einer doppelten Herausforderung: Sie muss kurzfristige Alternativen für Gaslieferungen finden und sich langfristig einem green deal verpflichten. Dies erfordert einen grundlegenden Wandel der Zusammenarbeit zwischen EU mit ihren Energielieferländern.
• Algerien verfügt über großes Potenzial erneuerbarer Energien, es mangelt ihnen jedoch an Technologie und Kapital. Eine EU-Algerien-Energiepartnerschäft ...