Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa presents research undertaken to understand how better management of the revenues and opportunities associated with natural resources can accelerate diversification and structural change in Africa. It begins with essays on managing the boom, the construction sector, and linking industry to the major issues that frame the question of how to use natural resources for structural change. It reports the main research results for five countries-Ghana, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. Each country study covers managing the boom, the construction sector, and linking industry to the resource. Mining for Change argues that good policy can make a difference and sets out ideas for policy change and widening the options for structural change.
1. Overview / John Page and Finn Tarp -- 2. Understanding the boom -- 3. Does construction limit investment? / Martina Kirchberger -- 4. Rowing against the current: Economic diversification in Africa / John Page -- 5. The boom, the bust, and the dynamics of oil resource management in Ghana / Ernest Aryeetey and Ishmael Ackah -- 6. The construction sector in Ghana / Nkechi Owoo and Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio -- 7. Local content law and practice: The case of Ghana / Charles Ackah and Asaah S. Mohammed -- 8. Mozambique—bust before boom: Reflections on investment surges and new gas / Alan R. Roe -- 9. The construction sector in Mozambique / António S. Cruz, Francisco Fernandes, Fausto J. Mafambissa and Francisco Pereira -- 10. Local content and the prospects for economic diversification in Mozambique / Evelyn Dietsche and Ana Maria Esteves -- 11. Gas in Tanzania: Adapting to new realities / Mark Henstridge -- 12. The construction sector in Tanzania / Geraldine J. Kikwasi and Cecilia Escalante -- 13. Local content: Are there benefits for Tanzania? -- 14. Uganda’s oil: How much, when, and how will it be governed? / Sebastian Wolf and Vishal Aditya Potluri -- 15. Construction and public procurement in Uganda / Emanuele Colonnelli and Nicole Ntungire -- 16. Enhancing local content in Uganda / Ritwika Sen -- 17. The boom-bust cycle of global copper prices, structural change and industrial development in Zambia / Robert Liebenthal and Caesar Cheelo -- 18. The construction sector in Zambia / Caesar Cheelo and Robert Liebenthal -- 19. Local content in Zambia—a faltering experience? / Wilfred C. Lombe -- 20. Implications for public policy / John Page and Finn Tarp.

xxiv, 488 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780198851172