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POL 305 - African Politics (Lab Project): Resource Curse

Academic / Scholarly Article Examples

Polus, Andrzej. 2013. “The Inevitability of the ‘Resource Curse’ in Sub-Saharan Africa? Relations between NGOs and Governments in Zambia, Botswana and Ghana.” Polish Quarterly of International Affairs 22 (4): 77–92.

Obi, Cyril. 2010. “Oil as the ‘Curse’ of Conflict in Africa: Peering through the Smoke and Mirrors.” Review of African Political Economy 37 (126): 483–95.

Owusu, B. (2018). "'Doomed by the “Resource Curse?'” Fish and Oil Conflicts in the Western Gulf of Guinea, Ghana." Development, 61(1–4), 149–159.

Harris, A. S., Sigman, R., Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., Mikkelsen, K. S., & Schuster, C. (2020). Oiling the Bureaucracy? Political Spending, Bureaucrats and the Resource Curse. World Development, 127, n.p..