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Countries rich in extractable natural resources, especially oil, often suffer from high poverty, frequent conflict, crummy governance, and endemic corruption. Current policy prescriptions for countries hoping to evade the curse often fall short, partly because they do not address the internal political economy effects of the massive unearned income—the so-called “rents”—generated by natural resource extraction. When governments can survive on natural resource rents, they do not need to tax their citizens. In turn, citizens do not expect or demand public services, clean government, or even basic accountability. </p> <div> <div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 7px; margin-top: 7px; float: right;"> <div id="oil_links" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 6px; padding: 6px; width: 250px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"> <h3>Oil-to-Cash Paper Series</h3> <h4>Summary Paper</h4> <ul> <li><a style="color:#035781;font-size:12px;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424714/">Oil-to-Cash Proposal</a></li> </ul> <h4>Thematic Studies:</h4> <ul> <li><a style="color:#035781;font-size:12px;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424574">Politics of Direct Distribution</a></li> <li><a style="color:#035781;font-size:12px;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425165/">Biometric ID and Mobile Money</a></li> <li><a style="color:#035781;font-size:12px;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Initiatives/Oil2Cash/Final_Formatted_Monk_and_Dixon_SWF_10.11.pdf">Sovereign Wealth Funds</a> </li> <li style="font-size:12px;"><a style="color:#035781;font-size:12px;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425822">Taxation and Accountability </a></li> </ul> <h4>Case Studies:</h4> <ul> <li><a style="color:#035781;font-size:12px;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422981/">Ghana</a> </li> <li><a style="color:#035781;font-size:12px;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425327/">Uganda</a></li> <li><a style="color:#035781;font-size:12px;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425433/">Iraq</a> </li> <li><a style="color:#035781;font-size:12px;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Initiatives/Oil2Cash/Gillies_Sayne_Niger_Delta_Final_Draft_Formatted_10.11.pdf">Niger Delta</a> </li> <li><a style="color:#035781;font-size:12px;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Initiatives/Oil2Cash/EG_Goldman_Formatted_Version_Final.pdf ">Equatorial Guinea</a> </li> <li style="font-size:12px;">Sierra Leone (forthcoming)</li> <li style="font-size:12px;">Venezuela (forthcoming)</li> </ul> <h4>Case Studies from Revenue Watch:</h4> <ul> <li style="font-size:12px;">Bolivia (forthcoming)</li> <li style="font-size:12px;">Timor-Leste (forthcoming)</li> <li style="font-size:12px;">Alaska (forthcoming)</li> </ul> </div> </div> <p>CGD is expanding work on one policy option that may address the root of the resource curse and help to foster a social contract in resource-rich countries: direct distribution of revenues. Under this proposal, a government would transfer some or all of the revenue from natural resource extraction to citizens in a universal, transparent, and regular payment. Having put this money in the hands of its citizens, the state would treat it like normal income and tax it accordingly—thus forcing the state to collect taxes and fueling public demand for the government to be transparent and accountable in its management of natural resource revenues and in the delivery of public services.</p> <p>CGD has a long history of work on the resource curse, and has been exploring the idea of direct distribution. Senior fellow <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1423702">Alan Gelb</a> was one of the first authors to analyze the political economy effects of rents in his 1988 book, <em>Oil Windfalls: Blessing or Curse?</em><em> </em>Senior fellow <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/12989">Arvind Subramanian</a> has proposed <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://ideas.repec.org/p/imf/imfwpa/03-139.html">direct distribution for Nigeria</a>, and President <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483">Nancy Birdsall</a> and Subramanian made <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/2993/">a case for the policy in Iraq</a>. Senior fellow <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2713">Todd Moss</a> in 2009 proposed that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422981/">Ghana set up a system for direct distribution</a> ahead of the oil revenues, and continues to oversee the initiative. </p> <p>This new CGD initiative brings together Birdsall, Gelb, Moss, and Subramanian to explore the conceptual and practical questions of piloting direct distribution: Where might such a scheme make sense? What conditions might be necessary for success? Who might be the winners and losers? How would it be distributed? 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An expert on oil, civil society, and governance in the Middle East who works as an advisor to the UNDP, he is fluent in Arabic, spent more than two decades in the Middle East as a journalist for Reuters, and has just published a highly readable book...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425433_image_West_Iraq_oil.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425433">Iraq’s Last Window: Diffusing the Risks of a Petro-State - Working Paper 266</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 12, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Johnny West describes how an oil-dividend program could be structured by, for example, taking advantage of Iraq’s existing rationing system, ubiquitous mobile phone networks, and new biometric ID cards.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425327_image_Oil_for_Uganda_or_Ugandans.png&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425327">Oil for Uganda – or Ugandans? Can Cash Transfers Prevent the Resource Curse? - Working Paper 261</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jul 26, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Uganda has sought to finance its development agenda with oil since discovering the resource in its Albertine Lakes Basin in 2009. This paper considers alternative methods for distributing the rents from oil that mitigate some of the governance risks associated with natural resource revenues.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425165_image_Gelb_Decker_Biometrics.JPG&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425165">Cash at Your Fingertips: Biometric Technology for Transfers in Developing and Resource-Rich Countries - Working Paper 253</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 2, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>This paper surveys the arguments for and against cash-transfer programs in resource-rich states, discusses some of the new biometric identification technologies, and reaches preliminary conclusions about their potentially very large benefits for developing countries.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424714_image_Moss_oil_cover.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424714">Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers - Working Paper 237</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 4, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Todd Moss proposes that countries seeking to manage new natural resource wealth should consider distributing income directly to citizens as cash transfers. Beyond serving as a powerful and proven policy intervention, cash transfers may also mitigate the corrosive effect natural resource revenue...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424574_image_gillies.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424574">Giving Money Away? The Politics of Direct Distribution in Resource-Rich States - Working Paper 231</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 5, 2010</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>In this paper Gillies discusses the political feasibility and political implications of cash transfers in the specific context of resource-rich states.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424429_image_gelb_170.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/multimedia/detail/1424429"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107163111/http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2010/09/14/can-oil-money-be-spent-well-alan-gelb-on-resource-revenues-and-development/">Can Oil Money Be Spent Well? 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Together with co-author Sina Grassman, Alan has written a paper that...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <ul> </div> <div class="tab-box popular"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425822_image_Devarajan_Direct_redistribution.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425822">Direct Redistribution, Taxation, and Accountability in Oil-Rich Economies: A Proposal - Working Paper 281</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 20, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>To enhance efficiency of public spending in oil-rich economies, this paper proposes that some of the oil revenues be transferred directly to citizens, and then taxed to finance public expenditures. 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This paper considers alternative methods for distributing the rents from oil that mitigate some of the governance risks associated with natural resource revenues.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424714_image_Moss_oil_cover.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424714">Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers - Working Paper 237</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 4, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Todd Moss proposes that countries seeking to manage new natural resource wealth should consider distributing income directly to citizens as cash transfers. Beyond serving as a powerful and proven policy intervention, cash transfers may also mitigate the corrosive effect natural resource revenue...</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425433_image_West_Iraq_oil.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425433">Iraq’s Last Window: Diffusing the Risks of a Petro-State - Working Paper 266</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 12, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>Johnny West describes how an oil-dividend program could be structured by, for example, taking advantage of Iraq’s existing rationing system, ubiquitous mobile phone networks, and new biometric ID cards.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1422981.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422981">Saving Ghana from Its Oil: The Case for Direct Cash Distribution - Working Paper 186</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 19, 2009</span> </div> <div class="item-description"><p>CGD vice president and senior fellow Todd Moss and reasearch assistant Lauren Young propose direct cash distribution of Ghana's oil profits to help the country avoid the natural resource curse. 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Todd oversees the Center’s fundraising efforts and relations with external partners.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/12989_file_subramanian_170.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/12989/">Arvind Subramanian</a>, Senior Fellow <div><p>Arvind Subramanian’s current work focuses on the economics of climate change and the ascendancy of China. His latest book is Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance. He is a joint senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.</p></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="tab-box publications"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425822_image_Devarajan_Direct_redistribution.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425822/">Direct Redistribution, Taxation, and Accountability in Oil-Rich Economies: A Proposal - Working Paper 281</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 20, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> To enhance efficiency of public spending in oil-rich economies, this paper proposes that some of the oil revenues be transferred directly to citizens, and then taxed to finance public expenditures. 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This paper considers alternative methods for distributing the rents from oil that mitigate some of the governance risks associated with natural resource revenues. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425165_image_Gelb_Decker_Biometrics.JPG&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425165/">Cash at Your Fingertips: Biometric Technology for Transfers in Developing and Resource-Rich Countries - Working Paper 253</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 2, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> This paper surveys the arguments for and against cash-transfer programs in resource-rich states, discusses some of the new biometric identification technologies, and reaches preliminary conclusions about their potentially very large benefits for developing countries. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120107163111im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424714_image_Moss_oil_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107163111/http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424714/">Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers - Working Paper 237</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jan 4, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <p> Todd Moss proposes that countries seeking to manage new natural resource wealth should consider distributing income directly to citizens as cash transfers. 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