Mining for Change

For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks.

This book presents research on how to better manage the revenues and opportunities associated with natural resources.

1 John Page and Finn Tarp: Overview; Part I: Framing the Issues; 2 Mark Henstridge: Understanding the boom; 3 Martina Kirchberger: The construction sector in developing countries: some key issues; 4 John Page: Rowing against the current: economic diversification in Africa; Part II: Country Studies; 5 Ernest Aryeetey and Ishmael Ackah: The boom, the bust, and the dynamics of oil resource management in Ghana; 6 Nkechi Srodah Owoo and Monica P.

Lambon-Quayefio: The construction sector in Ghana; 7 Charles Godfred Ackah and Asaah S.

Mohammed: Local content law and practice: the case of Ghana; 8 Alan R.

Roe: Mozambique-bust before boom: reflections on investment surges and new gas; 9 Antonio S.

Cruz, Francisco Fernandes, Fausto J.

Mafambissa, and Francisco Pereira: The construction sector in Mozambique; 10 Evelyn Dietsche and Ana Maria Esteves: Local content and the prospects for economic diversification in Mozambique; 11 Mark Henstridge: Gas in Tanzania: adapting to new realities; 12 Geraldine J.

Kikwasi and Cecilia Escalante: The construction sector in Tanzania; 13 Mia Ellis and Margaret McMillan: Local content: are there benefits for Tanzania?

; 14 Sebastian Wolf and Vishal Aditya Potluri: Uganda's oil: how much, when, and how will it be governed?

; 15 Emanuele Colonnelli and Nicole Ntungire: Construction and public procurement in Uganda; 16 Ritwika Sen: Enhancing local content in Uganda; 17 Robert Liebenthal and Caesar Cheelo: The boom-bust cycle of global copper prices, structural change and industrial development in Zambia; 18 Caesar Cheelo and Robert Liebenthal: The construction sector in Zambia; 19 Wilfred C.

Lombe: Local content in Zambia-a faltering experience?

; Part III: Policy Implications; 20 John Page and Finn Tarp: Implications for public policy