The Political Economy of Natural Resource Funds

lt;p>Eyene Okpanachi is Marie Curie Fellow at the University of South Wales. He was previously Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Victoria and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar at the University of Alberta. His works on natural resources, political institutions, and conflict processes have been published in journals such as Review of Policy Research, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, World Futures, and Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.

Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay is Professor of Comparative Politics and former Provost/Vice President Academic at the University of Victoria, Canada. She is Past President of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA).  She has authored or co-authored eight books and several articles and reviews. Her work is widely reviewed and cited, in particular her writings on Kashmir and India-Pakistan relations, a subject on which she is widely considered to be the leading North American expert.  Her recent publications include Religion and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir (2020), CoVid India: Federalism, Majoritarian Nationalism, and the Vulnerable and Marginalized (2020), Kashmir Elections: A Precursor to 'No More Two Flags, Two Constitutions' (2020); Contested Governance, Competing Nationalisms, and Disenchanted Publics: Kashmir beyond Intractability? (2018) and Modi's Foreign Policy (2017).  

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Political Economy of Natural Resource Funds (NRFs).- Chapter 2: The Alaska Permanent Fund and the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund - Divergent Paths, Divergent Outcomes.- Chapter 3: The Political Economy of the Angola Fund.- Chapter 4: Botswana's Natural Resource Fund (The Pula Fund).- Chapter 5: Chile: A Successful Story in Latin America?.- Chapter 6: The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Fund Management in Ghana.- Chapter 7: States and the Construction of Privilege over the Creation of Oil Funds in Nigeria.- Chapter 8: A Less than Sovereign Wealth Fund: Norway's Government Pension Fund, Global.- Chapter 9: Old Fund, New Mandate: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF).- Chapter 10: The Timor Leste Petroleum Fund: From Buying Peace to White Elephants.- Chapter 11: Practices and Models: Prospects for Commodity-based SWFs.- Index.