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“One thing leads to another”—Commodities, linkages and industrial development

Mike Morris, Raphael Kaplinsky and David Kaplan

Resources Policy, 2012, vol. 37, issue 4, 408-416

Abstract: With a particular focus on low income economies in SSA, this paper addresses the nature and determinants of linkages from the commodities sectors and challenges the received view that enclave development is an inherent characteristic of resource extraction, particularly in the hard and energy commodities sectors. It argues that there has been a steady increase in linkage development and that there are significant opportunities for deepening this process. The opportunities may be greater for backward than for forward linkages, particularly in the minerals and energy sectors. In making this case, this Discussion Paper draws on the experience of high income countries which have resource intensive economic structures, the geographical specificity of many resources and the growing interest of large resource extracting firms in outsourcing the production of inputs which are outside of their core competences and in supporting local production of some inputs, it sets out a general model of linkage development which distinguishes between win–win and win–lose outcomes.

Keywords: Resource curse; Commodities; Industrialisation; Backward and forward linkages; Enclave development; Global value chains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O O13 O38 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2012.06.008

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