Challenges of the Caspian resource boom

Andreas Heinrich, Heiko Pleines

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Challenges of the Caspian resource boom

2012
318 pages
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic DevelopmentCaspian Sea RegionNatural resourcesPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental PolicyPetroleum industry and tradePOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic PolicyEconomic conditionsBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental EconomicsBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / MacroeconomicsEconomic developmentElite (social sciences)Asia, economic policy

"A re-conceptualisation of the widely-held concept of the "resource curse," which contends that resource booms inevitably lead to numerous political, social and economic problems. This book counters that these problems are by no means inevitable, but are rather the direct result of specific policy choices made by actors within particular regimes"--

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