Large quantities of oil were discovered in the Albertine Rift Valley in Western Uganda in 2006. The sound management of these oil resources and revenues is undoubtedly one of the key public policy challenges for Uganda as it is for other African countries with large oil and/or gas endowments....

Since the 1960s the resource-poor countries have grown much faster than the resource-rich ones. This reflects basic differences in the speed of industrialization and the nature of the political state that are rooted in the natural resource endowment. Most resource-rich countries experienced a...

Conditions of poverty in Indian country are often compared to those of developing nations. As astonishing as it may seem to an outsider, many Indian reservations exist without a basic infrastructure of roads, plumbing, electricity, access to healthcare, and criminal law enforcement. These...