Tag Archives | Resource curse

Will the fruits of Africa’s commodity boom be lost to corruption?

4 April 2012 in Africa and Middle East, European Union, Poverty and development, Private sector

As the prices of oil and other non-renewable commodities begin to soar once again, anti-corruption activists from DR Congo, Ghana, Liberia and Zimbabwe were in Brussels last week with the message that there is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get their economies on a sustainable development path, a path that has been blocked by corruption in […]

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A Green Resource Curse: rare earth metals

14 March 2012 in Climate Change, Private sector

A global trade dispute is brewing over the rare metals inside many of our favourite technologies such as smart phones or hybrid cars. Last year, an article published in Transparency International’s Climate Change edition of the Global Corruption Report warned about the corruption risks in the countries where many of these valuable raw materials are […]

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