Managing the Exploitation of Natural Assets: lessons for low income countries.

This paper provides an analytic review of the upstream aspects of the exploitation of natural resources: the assignment of ownership rights, taxation, the discovery process, extraction, renewability, and clean-up. It sets these issues within the principal-agent framework. It proposes that the presen...

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Main Authors: Collier, P, Venables, A
Format: Working paper
Published: OxCarre 2008