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Seminar Description

This seminar discusses the contrasting behaviours of the Mining sector (sample of 6 countries: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras) and the Oil/Gas sector (sample of 6 countries: Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela) in response to the metals and oil price boom cycle of 2003 - 2011, in terms of production response, investment and State participation in sector revenues.

This empirical analysis tells us about the implications of different Resource Governance structures, for State participation and sector investment responses to the recent favourable price cycle (2004 - 2011).  Policy implications are derived to improve Governance structures in Latin American countries based on this analysis, particularly in a short to medium term scenario of continued high international prices for commodities.

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Programme

Jean Acquatella Corrales has been an Economic Affairs Officer in the Energy and Natural Resources Unit of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN CEPAL, Santiago, Chile) since 2006, and was previously in the Sustainable Development Division from 1999 to 2005. His research areas include policy analysis, design and implementation of policy and regulatory instruments in environment, and energy and natural resources sectors in Latin America and the Caribbean countries. He holds a PhD from the International environment and resource policy program of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, an MALD in development economics and environmental economics also from the Fletcher School, an MA in urban and environmental policy from Tufts University, and an electrical engineering degree from Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela.

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Registration is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact UNU-IAS at unuias[at]ias.unu.edu or 045-221-2300.

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