This book aims to foster a better understanding of the particular challenges faced by resource-dependent countries or jurisdictions in managing their resource revenues through natural resource funds (NRFs). It explores the varieties of natural resource management strategies as dictated primarily by domestic politics, and how the potential negative distributional consequences of resource wealth management (the resource curse) may add political dimensions and potential conflicts to decisions about NRFs in ways that other sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) do not experience. By bridging the existing academic and practical knowledge gap arising from the limited attention given to the domestic politics of NRFs and state-society relations, this edited book is a valuable resource for academics, policymakers, and civil society actors in resource-driven economies and especially those interested in learning from comparative experiences of natural resource wealth management through NRFs.

Genre: Comedy Characters: 10f, 1m (to play several roles) Scenery: Unit set In this hilarious satire on B-movies of the 1950's, Mary Eleanor, an innocent duped into crime, lands in the Greenwich Village Woman's House of Detention, presided over by a massive matron with a taste for sadism and female flesh as our heroine, now Caged in the Big House, learns about life The Hard Way... "Sex is rampant and comically cheerful!...A delirious evening of Grade-A tomfoolery!"-

This book aims to foster a better understanding of the particular challenges faced by resource-dependent countries or jurisdictions in managing their resource revenues through natural resource funds (NRFs). It explores the varieties of natural resource management strategies as dictated primarily by domestic politics, and how the potential negative distributional consequences of resource wealth management (the resource curse) may add political dimensions and potential conflicts to decisions about NRFs in ways that other sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) do not experience. By bridging the existing academic and practical knowledge gap arising from the limited attention given to the domestic politics of NRFs and state-society relations, this edited book is a valuable resource for academics, policymakers, and civil society actors in resource-driven economies and especially those interested in learning from comparative experiences of natural resource wealth management through NRFs.

This book examines oil and gas conflict dynamics (or conflict processes/mechanisms) with emphasis on conflict over resource ownership, control, management, or regulation, as well as sharing of revenues within the context of federalism in Canada, an established federation with a consolidated democratic structure and, generally, a decentralized federal institutional design over oil and gas, and Nigeria, an emerging federation with a centralized federal institutional design. The focused comparison of intergovernmental fiscal transfers in both countries in their historical and temporal contexts allows a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at play in the relationships between federalism and resource conflict in Canada and Nigeria, especially the continuity and change in the interactions between federal institutions, socio-economic factors, and political processes.

Connaissez-vous Tachi, le grillon tibetain qui vit dans le jardin de Ditza? C'est un gentil grillon venu du Tibet qui fait de la meditation et chante un mantra, une formule magique qui transforme les choses et les gens. La formule magique est Om Mani Peme Hum Hri et Ditza l'appelle le mantra des mamies. Tachi, Ditza et Couscous, le chat, sont de bons amis et ont beaucoup d'aventures. "Preface J'aime les histoires, particulierement celles qui sont originales, droles et pleines de rebondissements. Quand je tombe sur un livre comme cela je le lis d'une traite et ne m'arrete, a regret, que lorsque j'arrive a la derniere page. Ce livre est un de ceux-la. Tres bien illustre, il a en plus le merite de transmettre un peu de l'Ancienne Sagesse preservee au Tibet pendant plus de mil ans. Je souhaite qu'il divertisse et instruise petits et grands. Ringu Tulku"

Kennt ihr Tashi, die tibetische Grille, die in Ditzas Garten lebt ? Es ist eine kleine, lustige Grille, die aus Tibet gekommen ist. Sie meditiert und singt einen Mantra, eine Zauberformel, die Dinge und Menschen verwandelt. Ihr Mantra lautet Om Mani Peme Hum Hri, und Ditza nennt ihn Mami Mantra. Tashi, Ditza und Pipo, die getigerte Katze sind gute Freunde und erleben zusammen viele Abenteuer. Vorwort Ich mag Geschichten. Besonders liebe ich solche mit tieferer Bedeutung, Geschichten, die seltsam, lustig und ereignisreich sind. Wenn ich ein Buch wie dieses zur Hand nehme, kann ich es nicht weglegen, bis ich es ganz durchgelesen habe - und dann finde ich es schade, dass es zu Ende ist. Diese Geschichten fesseln nicht nur meine Aufmerksamkeit, sondern sie vermitteln auch Verstandnis fur die alte Weisheit, die fur mehr als tausend Jahre in Tibet bewahrt wurde. Auch die Art der Illustrationen in diesem Buch ist sehr ansprechend. Ich wunsche und hoffe, dass dieses Buch viele Menschen, jung und alt, unterhalten und lehren wird. Ringu Tulku