Preface | |
Mineral Wealth and Economic Development: An Overview | p. 1 |
Economic Nationalism and Multinational Mining Companies | p. 4 |
The Optimal Pace of Mineral Exploitation | p. 7 |
Political Pressures and the Use of Mineral Rents | p. 10 |
Linkages with the Rest of the Economy | p. 12 |
Conclusion | p. 16 |
Reference | p. 17 |
Mining Companies, Economic Nationalism, and Third World Development in the 1990s | p. 19 |
The Sources of Economic Nationalism | p. 20 |
The Structural Vulnerability of LDC Mining Investments | p. 22 |
Strategies to Offset Investor Vulnerability | p. 26 |
Strategies to Manage Political Risk | p. 27 |
Use of Project Finance to Offset Political Risk | p. 30 |
Conclusion | p. 34 |
Acknowledgment | p. 35 |
References | p. 35 |
Economic Development and the Timing of Mineral Exploitation | p. 39 |
The Fallacies of the Hotelling Rule | p. 40 |
Saving for Future Generations | p. 43 |
Waiting for an Appropriate Institutional Framework | p. 47 |
Deferral to Avoid Depressing Mineral Prices | p. 50 |
Delaying Projects to Strengthen Monopoly Profits | p. 52 |
Summary | p. 53 |
Acknowledgments | p. 55 |
References | p. 55 |
The Political Economy of Rent in Mining Countries | p. 59 |
The Nature of Mining Rents | p. 62 |
Earlier Studies | p. 65 |
Mining Rents in Zambia | p. 67 |
Mining Rents in Other Countries | p. 72 |
Prospects | p. 75 |
References | p. 78 |
Economic Policy in Mineral-Exporting Countries: What Have We Learned? | p. 81 |
Mineral Market Characteristics and Economic Policy | p. 82 |
Theoretical Approaches | p. 87 |
Economic Performance in Mineral-Exporting Countries | p. 97 |
Economic Policy Choices | p. 106 |
Some Lessons for Economic Policy | p. 116 |
Acknowledgment | p. 119 |
References | p. 119 |
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