Elissaios Papyrakis is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and in the School of International Development, the University of East Anglia, UK. His work lies at the intersection of environment and development issues.

• 1. Introduction: What have we learned from two decades of intensive research 2. The anthropology of extraction: Critical perspectives on the resource curse 3. The impact of natural resources: Survey of recent quantitative evidence 4. The institutional and psychological foundations of natural resource policies 5. Gold mining and economic development in Guyana: A unique resource curse? 6. Righting the resource curse: Institutional politics and state capabilities in Edo state, Nigeria 7. Natural resources and small island economies: Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago 8. Resources and governance in Sierra Leone’s civil war 9. Corruption and the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative

Elissaios Papyrakis is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and in the School of International Development, the University of East Anglia, UK. His work lies at the intersection of environment and development issues.

• 1. Introduction: What have we learned from two decades of intensive research 2. The anthropology of extraction: Critical perspectives on the resource curse 3. The impact of natural resources: Survey of recent quantitative evidence 4. The institutional and psychological foundations of natural resource policies 5. Gold mining and economic development in Guyana: A unique resource curse? 6. Righting the resource curse: Institutional politics and state capabilities in Edo state, Nigeria 7. Natural resources and small island economies: Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago 8. Resources and governance in Sierra Leone’s civil war 9. Corruption and the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative

Elissaios Papyrakis is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and in the School of International Development, the University of East Anglia, UK. His work lies at the intersection of environment and development issues.

• 1. Introduction: What have we learned from two decades of intensive research 2. The anthropology of extraction: Critical perspectives on the resource curse 3. The impact of natural resources: Survey of recent quantitative evidence 4. The institutional and psychological foundations of natural resource policies 5. Gold mining and economic development in Guyana: A unique resource curse? 6. Righting the resource curse: Institutional politics and state capabilities in Edo state, Nigeria 7. Natural resources and small island economies: Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago 8. Resources and governance in Sierra Leone’s civil war 9. Corruption and the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative