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Oil in Chad and Equatorial Guinea: Widening the Focus of the Resource Curse

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  • Artur Colom-Jaén

    (1] Department of Applied Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain[2] Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK)

  • Alicia Campos-Serrano

    (Department of Social Anthropology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

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L'exploration et l'extraction du pétrole dans la mer territoriale de la Guinée équatoriale ainsi que dans la région de Doba au sud du Tchad ont donné naissance à certaines dynamiques socio-économiques et politiques au sein des populations de ces régions. La littérature qui s'est développée autour du concept de «malédiction des ressources» permet de mieux comprendre comment le pétrole renforce d’une part le comportement rentier et l'autoritarisme des gouvernements en question et d’autre part la pauvreté et les inégalités dans ces pays. Cependant, ces approches ne peuvent expliquer toutes les similitudes de cas, et certaines des différences aident à comprendre les rouages de la malédiction spécifiques à ces pays. Une analyse appropriée de ces dynamiques dans leur complexité exige de prendre en compte les trajectoires historiques, les stratégies particulières des acteurs locaux et non locaux, ainsi que le contexte économique et politique international dans lequel le pétrole est produit et commercialisé.

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  • Artur Colom-Jaén & Alicia Campos-Serrano, 2013. "Oil in Chad and Equatorial Guinea: Widening the Focus of the Resource Curse," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 25(4), pages 584-599, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:25:y:2013:i:4:p:584-599
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    1. Bernhard Tröster & Karin Küblböck, 2020. "Unprecedented but not Unpredictable: Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis on Commodity-Dependent Countries," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 32(5), pages 1430-1449, December.

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