Petroleum extraction in Africa

Many other countries have managed to secure socio-economic development by extract-ing natural resources. But, the situation is generally diferent in sub-Saharan Africa as in other emerging economies. Studies from Nigeria (Okpanachi and Andrews 2012), Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola (Ovadia 2013), and Bolivia (Haarstad 2014) show how poorly managed extractive sector can lead to the so-called resource curse (e.g. Kopinski et al. 2013; Auty 1994). For several decades, scholarly debates on Africa’s extractive industry focus on the inverse relationship between natural resources and develop-ment. However, recently grounded in Africa Rising discourse (Heilbrunn 2014; Fioramonti 2014), scholarly works emphasise natural resource-driven GDP growth in Africa.

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Published in: Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
See chapter on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003143840-65