When global realities dash local hopes
Tanzania’s gas boom that never was
Aidan Barlow, lecturer at the department of Social and Policy Sciences Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bath in the UK, explored people's expectations in Mtwara, Tanzania in response to the extraction of natural gas, and how factors like commodity price cycles and mining life cycles influenced the political economy of development.
Rising international commodity prices can shape or reshape the fortunes of places. When large mining and oil and gas prospectors suddenly show an interest, a remote area can become...
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