Institutional Design and Capacity to Enhance Effective Governance of Oil and Gas Wealth: The Case of Kurdistan Region

1. Front Matter

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2. Overview

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   Pages 1-8

3. Challenges in Petroleum Rich Countries

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   Pages 9-32

4. Transmission Channels of the ‘Resource Curse’ Reappraised

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   Pages 33-66

5. Lessons from Other Petroleum-Rich States

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6. Importance and Development of the Oil and Gas Industry in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region

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7. Management of Oil and Gas Resources in Iraqi-Kurdistan

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8. General Conclusions and Discussion

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9. Back Matter

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This book presents a ‘critical reappraisal’ of the resource curse thesis and extends the analysis to consider political and social dimensions, and thus, the importance of structure in the petroleum sector’s governance model. It examines major challenges surrounding the governance of petroleum resources, and the implications for the economic growth and development of hydrocarbon-abundant countries as a result of ineffective economic, political, and social mechanisms. The book subsequently investigates a range of causal factors that may promote or hinder the effective management of oil and gas resources in the Kurdistan Region, which also has implications for the security of the wider region and for global energy security. The book also seeks to arrive at lessons learned and policy guidelines to help inform other new petroleum-exporting countries and regions about how to best manage their newfound wealth.

• Kurdistan’s oil and gas sector
• Effective governance of petroleum resources
• Political economy of oil and gas
• Resource curse
• Oil and gas management
• Natural resource-­‐rich countries,

• Kurdistan Regional Government, Kiel, Germany

  Khazal Abdullah Auzer

Profressor Khazal Abdullah Auzer completed her undergraduate BSc Studies (1998) in Iran and graduated with a MA degree (2009) from Regensburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany. She gained her PhD (2016) at the University of Warwick in United Kingdom in the area of applied energy. Profressor Khazal has worked at interface between industrial and political economy. In her research, she focused on the political economy of oil and gas sector. For almost four years, she has studied the development and governance of energy sector.

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