This publication identifies the different legal and economic instruments which States invoke in order to assert ownership of and distribute the revenue derived from the exploitation of mineral, water and hydrocarbon ...

Securing stable long-term supplies of raw materials is vital for industrialized nations. China, Japan and South Korea are three countries in East Asia which import large quantities of raw material, especially metals and ...

The use of water as a therapeutic agent has been carried out for more than five thousand years in several civilizations, such as the Greek and Roman civilizations, which developed hydrotherapy, emphasizing its important ...

Las sociedades que cuentan con abundantes recursos naturales no renovables pueden transformar dicho capital natural en otros tipos de capital (p. ej. humano, producido, infraestructura) a través de diferentes canales. Para ...

Rrealizar una evaluación de la explotación de un recurso no renovable como el oro, desde una perspectiva económica abordando las dimensiones ambientales y sociales para capturar los problemas principales de la extracción ...

This paper studies how a formal institutional reform of the royalty resource allocation system can affect local politicians’ and rent-seekers’ corrupt behavior. Using a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the ...