Natural Resources

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BRIEFS
Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers (CGD Brief)
June 09, 2015
This brief is a summary of the book Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers (Washington, DC: Center for Global Development, 2015).
Blog Post
Is It Finally Time for Oil to Cash (the Book Launch)?
June 02, 2015
What would happen if a country that struck oil decided to share the income directly with its own citizens? That’s precisely the question that Caroline Lambert, Stephanie Majerowicz, and I try to explore in our new book Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse with Cash Transfers. 
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A Glimmer of Hope for a Carbon Tax in the US?
April 27, 2015
I’ve spent the last year at CGD working with a team of experts to figure out how to encourage more funders to pay tropical forest countries for results in reducing deforestation.  My CGD colleagues Jonah Busch and Frances Seymour have done extensive research that documents that forests ar...