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Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: Insights from Africa and South America
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Description for Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: Insights from Africa and South America
Paperback. Offers descriptions of both failed and successful attempts at knowledge intensification of resource-based productive activities in countries that are often, incorrectly, lumped into the category of 'resource-rich underachievers'. Editor(s): Lorentzen, Jo. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KLS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 198 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
For a long time economists have warned that abundant natural resources are bad for economic development because their exploitation stunts manufacturing exports, favours rent-seeking activities by politically well-connected people, and generally leads to unsustainable policies for which, as so often, the poor end up paying the price with lost growth and opportunity. But over the last few years the so-called resource curse has been revisited as historically uninformed, theoretically unsatisfactory, empirically incorrect, and largely useless for development policy.This volume contributes to this debate by focusing on the technological trajectories of firms and research teams in resource-intensive primary sectors of Brazil, ... Read more
For a long time economists have warned that abundant natural resources are bad for economic development because their exploitation stunts manufacturing exports, favours rent-seeking activities by politically well-connected people, and generally leads to unsustainable policies for which, as so often, the poor end up paying the price with lost growth and opportunity. But over the last few years the so-called resource curse has been revisited as historically uninformed, theoretically unsatisfactory, empirically incorrect, and largely useless for development policy.This volume contributes to this debate by focusing on the technological trajectories of firms and research teams in resource-intensive primary sectors of Brazil, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Human Sciences Research Council
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN
9780796922137
SKU
V9780796922137
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