Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse Through Cash Transfers

by Stephanie Majerowicz, Caroline Lambert, Todd Moss

What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corruption? How can citizens truly benefit from national wealth? With many of the world's poorest and most fragile states suddenly joining the ranks of oil and gas producers, these are pressing policy questions.

Oil to Cash explores one option that may help avoid the so-called resource curse:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933286695
• ISBN13: 9781933286693
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Center for Global Development
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"