Economic Diversification Policies in Natural Resource Rich Economies

This book takes a special interest in the policy experiences of a set of different countries that have extractive industries representing significant drivers of their economies and subsequently are significant contributors to government revenues. It explores twelve cases including upper-middle to high income economies such as Canada, Australia, Iceland and Norway, emerging economies such as Latin America, the GCC (Saudi and UAE), Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Russia, as well as the developing economy of Uganda.

Sami Mahroum is the Director of the INSEAD Innovation and Policy Initiative. Prior to that, he was a Senior Analyst with the OECD in Paris and a Visiting Reader at Birkbeck, University of London. Yasser Al-Saleh is a Faculty Member at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government. Prior to that, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the INSEAD Innovation and Policy Initiative.

- Economic Diversification: New Thinking - Industrial Diversification and the Evolving Position of Natural Resources in the Canadian Economy - Diversification of the Saudi Economy: Challenges and Prospects - Diversification in Latin American Oil Exporters: Was No Intervention a Better Policy Option? - Economic Diversification in Malaysia: Timing, Path Dependence and Increasing Returns - Diversification, Dutch Disease and Economic Growth: Options for Uganda - Economic Diversification in Australia - Economic Diversification in Russia: Nuclear to the Rescue? - Kazakhstan's Diversification Strategy: Are Policies Building Linkages and Promoting Competition? - The Role of Institutions on Economic Diversification: The Case of UAE - Double Diversification with an Application to Iceland - Industrial Diversification Processes and Strategies in an Oil Economy: Norway - Old and New Directions for Economic Diversification Policies