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The Rise and Fall of Oil-Rentier States in Africa

  • Yates D
Palgrave Macmillan UK, (2015), 45-64
DOI: 10.1057/9781137280411_3
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This chapter is concerned with African ‘rentier states’, a category first coined by an Iranian economist Hossein Mahdavy (1970), writing about the problems of oil dependency in Iran. His theory was successfully applied by other scholars working on Arab...

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Yates, D. A. (2015). The Rise and Fall of Oil-Rentier States in Africa. In New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources (pp. 45–64). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280411_3

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