One Nation Under Development? Comparing the Political Economy of Oil and Gas in Ghana and Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Ann Reed
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Political

scholarly journals The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics*

2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 1707-1754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Burgess ◽  
Matthew Hansen ◽  
Benjamin A. Olken ◽  
Peter Potapov ◽  
Stefanie Sieber
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Political ◽  
Illegal Logging ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Illegal Behavior ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions and threatens the world’s most diverse ecosystems. Much of this deforestation is driven by illegal logging. We use novel satellite data that tracks annual deforestation across eight years of Indonesian institutional change to examine how local officials’ incentives affect deforestation. Increases in the number of political jurisdictions lead to increased deforestation and lower timber prices, consistent with Cournot competition between jurisdictions. Illegal logging and local oil and gas rents are short-run substitutes, but this effect disappears over time with political turnover. The results illustrate how local officials’ incentives affect deforestation and show how standard economic theories can explain illegal behavior.

Introduction: The political economy of the Caspian oil and gas states

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Heinrich ◽  
Heiko Pleines
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Political

Post-rentier Economic Challenges

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Volatile Oil ◽  
State Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Rentier State ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Gulf State ◽  
Rentier States

The rentier states of the Middle East face a combination of political and economic challenges as they seek to reduce their reliance on volatile oil and gas revenues and diversify their economies. This article examines how the political economy of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states remains heavily dependent on the hydrocarbon sector and analyses the policy responses to the fall in world oil prices since 2014. Sections in the article examine the definitional aspect of rentier state theory, nature of the redistributive welfare state that developed in the 1970s in each Gulf State, and the political aspect of economic measures that seek to reform aspects of the distinctive political economy that has underpinned socio-political and economic stability for the past five decades.

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