Natural Resources

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Blog Post

Between a Rainforest and a Hard Place

August 06, 2014
Can extraction of petroleum resources in a high biodiversity rainforest be sustainable?
Blog Post

Getting Energy Prices Right – Smart but...

August 04, 2014
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, returned to CGD last week to talk about getting energy prices right. That’s the title of a new book by Ian Parry and co-authors at the IMF.  
WORKING PAPER

How Should Donors Respond to Resource Windfalls in Poor Countries? From Aid to Insurance - Working Paper 372

Anton Dobronogov et al.
July 08, 2014
Natural resources are being discovered in more countries, both rich and poor.  Many of the new and aspiring resource exporters are low-income countries that are still receiving substantial levels of foreign aid. 
WORKING PAPER

The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania - Working Paper 369

Daniel Ayalew Ali et al.
May 22, 2014
We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in land tenure formalization.