{"id":3425,"date":"2010-01-05T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=3425"},"modified":"2013-11-26T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T20:43:56","slug":"policy-012-minerals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/policy-012-minerals\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues in Brief, No. 12, January 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/c0g1tV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3410\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2010\/01\/Pardee-IIB-012-th.jpg\" alt=\"Pardee-IIB-012-th\" height=\"300\" width=\"232\" \/><\/a> Beyond The Resource Curse: Minerals and Global Development<br \/>\n<em>By Saleem H. Ali<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>January 2010\u00a0(8 pages)<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2010\/01\/Parde_IIB_012_Jan_2010.pdf?PDF=policy-012-minerals\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This policy brief discusses the concept of the \u201cresource curse\u201d and the often-assumed connection between a country\u2019s significant mineral wealth and violence and corruption. The paper argues that developing countries with abundant mineral resources can have positive and equitable development programs by establishing long-range plans that address governance, economic and social policies, and ecological issues associated with mineral extraction, and establishing appropriate frameworks and infrastructure to carry out these plans.<\/p>\n<p>Saleem H. Ali is Associate Professor of Environment Planning at the University of Vermont. This briefing paper is derived from his latest book <em>Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and A Sustainable Future<\/em> (Yale University Press, 2009). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasurebook.info\">www.treasurebook.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof Ali also gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2009\/10\/23\/saleem-ali-treasures-earth\/\">Pardee Lunch Seminar <\/a>on his book in Oct 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond The Resource Curse: Minerals and Global Development By Saleem H. Ali January 2010\u00a0(8 pages) Download PDF This policy brief discusses the concept of the \u201cresource curse\u201d and the often-assumed connection between a country\u2019s significant mineral wealth and violence and corruption. The paper argues that developing countries with abundant mineral resources can have positive and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2140,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17935,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3425\/revisions\/17935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}