Ready or Not: Namibia As a Potentially Successful Oil Producer
The primary objective of this paper is to assess whether Namibia is ready to become an oil producer. The geological estimates suggest that the country may possess the equivalent of as many as 11 billion barrels of crude oil. If the numbers are correct, Namibia would be sitting on the second-largest...
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| author | Andrzej Polus Dominik Kopinski Wojciech Tycholiz |
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| description | The primary objective of this paper is to assess whether Namibia is ready to become an oil producer. The geological estimates suggest that the country may possess the equivalent of as many as 11 billion barrels of crude oil. If the numbers are correct, Namibia would be sitting on the second-largest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa, and exploitation could start as soon as 2017. This clearly raises the question of whether Namibia is next in line to become a victim of the notorious “resource curse.†On the basis of critical discourse analysis and findings from field research, the authors have selected six dimensions of the resource curse and contextualised them within the spheres of Namibian politics and economy. While Namibia still faces a number of important challenges, our findings offer little evidence that the oil will have particularly disruptive effects. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e766c5b45a0e4aca80c8b3c3f6d142d22022-12-21T19:17:44ZengSAGE PublishingAfrica Spectrum1868-68692015-01-015023155Ready or Not: Namibia As a Potentially Successful Oil ProducerAndrzej Polus0Dominik Kopinski1Wojciech TycholizUniversity of WroclawUniversity of WroclawThe primary objective of this paper is to assess whether Namibia is ready to become an oil producer. The geological estimates suggest that the country may possess the equivalent of as many as 11 billion barrels of crude oil. If the numbers are correct, Namibia would be sitting on the second-largest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa, and exploitation could start as soon as 2017. This clearly raises the question of whether Namibia is next in line to become a victim of the notorious “resource curse.†On the basis of critical discourse analysis and findings from field research, the authors have selected six dimensions of the resource curse and contextualised them within the spheres of Namibian politics and economy. While Namibia still faces a number of important challenges, our findings offer little evidence that the oil will have particularly disruptive effects.http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/858political science, economicseconomic development, state, political systems, corruption, natural resources, crude oil/natural gas extraction320, 321, 324, 330, 333, 337Namibiapresent |
| spellingShingle | Andrzej Polus Dominik Kopinski Wojciech Tycholiz Ready or Not: Namibia As a Potentially Successful Oil Producer Africa Spectrum political science, economics economic development, state, political systems, corruption, natural resources, crude oil/natural gas extraction 320, 321, 324, 330, 333, 337 Namibia present |
| title | Ready or Not: Namibia As a Potentially Successful Oil Producer |
| title_full | Ready or Not: Namibia As a Potentially Successful Oil Producer |
| title_fullStr | Ready or Not: Namibia As a Potentially Successful Oil Producer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ready or Not: Namibia As a Potentially Successful Oil Producer |
| title_short | Ready or Not: Namibia As a Potentially Successful Oil Producer |
| title_sort | ready or not namibia as a potentially successful oil producer |
| topic | political science, economics economic development, state, political systems, corruption, natural resources, crude oil/natural gas extraction 320, 321, 324, 330, 333, 337 Namibia present |
| url | http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/858 |
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