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Working paper
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 ...
Working paper
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.
Working paper
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 ...
Working paper
Energy Transition – Quo Vadis
(2023-02)
- Extractivism has shaped Ecuador for the last half century.
- The Yasuní initiative aimed at leaving about one fifth of Ecuador’s oil reserves underground
- Poor handling of the Ecuadorian government and the international community let it falter and finally fade
- Energy transition towards renewable energy sources might provide a new scenario in which supply side policies such
as leaving fossil fuels underground and fossil fuel non proliferation treaties might be (re --)tested
Working paper
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 ...
Working paper
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.