Although oil and gas exploration has been going on in East Africa for decades, until recently exploration activities grew more slowly compared to other regions in Africa. Today, there has been a series of oil and gas discoveries in several East African countries, including Kenya, Madagascar,...

There is hitherto limited scholarship on the risks of corruption in local content policies in the extractive sector throughout the world. Yet, the concern that corruption might rear its head in local content policies in the extractive sector, particularly in developing countries where regulatory...