This book intends to inform the key participants in extractive projects – namely, the communities, the host governments and the investors – about good pract

"A study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)".

Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion

The book provides a systematic examination of the legal, fiscal and institutional frameworks for the commercial development of petroleum and solid mineral resou

Better designed and implemented fiscal regimes for oil, gas, and mining can make a substantial contribution to the revenue needs of many developing countries wh