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1. 1. Planning & The Heritage

   

   This insightful book delves into the intricate relationship between urban planning and heritage conservation, exploring how these two fields can coexist and complement each other. It examines the challenges and opportunities that arise when preserving historical sites within the context of modern urban development. Through a series of case studies and theoretical discussions, the book highlights the importance of balancing the need for progress with the preservation of cultural identity, offering practical solutions and strategies for planners and conservationists alike.

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2. 2. The Oil Curse

   How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations

   

   Using cross-country and subnational evidence, the book shows that dependence on oil revenues tends to undermine long-term development: resource rents concentrate power, reduce taxation and accountability, encourage corruption and repression, increase the risk of civil war and economic volatility, and shift public spending away from broad-based human capital investments. It traces the political and economic mechanisms—rent-seeking, weakened institutions, and Dutch disease—that link oil wealth to poor governance and stagnating social outcomes, and concludes with practical reforms such as stronger transparency and accountability, better fiscal institutions (including sovereign wealth funds and taxing reforms), economic diversification, and greater local empowerment to mitigate the so-called resource curse.

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