natural resources

Negotiation training improves the ability of Liberian communities to strike beneficial deals around forest and land management by strengthening leaders’ ability to identify mutually beneficial, higher-value agreements. However, it does not substantia...

Extreme weather and the green transition are reshaping global conflict. We summarise the evidence on this trend and explore how policy can respond.

High external debt levels worldwide have forced ecologically-rich nations to exploit their natural resources to generate revenue. Debt-for-nature swaps offer a promising solution to this problem, but remain challenging to implement in practice.

Peru’s experience, where transfers to local governments were funded by natural resource tax revenues and had a host of economic benefits in non-extractive areas, highlights the importance of fiscal redistribution in taking advantage of natural resour...

Production delays, sudden windfalls, and political reactions after discoveries create major challenges for local governments in Brazil

Increasing potential tax revenues for local governments triggered a rise in violence in resource-rich areas in India

Do politicians and presidents build roads to allow their citizens to get around, or is it primarily to make themselves richer?

Experimental results find that formalisation of customary landholdings and land rights reduced tree cover loss in rural areas of Benin

Population surges tend to cause conflict and competition for resources if unaccompanied by productivity growth and unmediated by strong institutions