Mining for Change

John Page is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution and a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). He is also visiting professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan and a Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. From 1980 to 2008 he was at the World Bank where his senior positions included: Director, Poverty Reduction, Director, Economic Policy, and Chief Economist, Africa. He is the author of several books and more than 100 published papers on economic development.Finn Tarp is Professor at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and Coordinator of the UCPH Development Economics Research Group (DERG). Director of UNU-WIDER from 2009 to 2018, and now a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of UNU-WIDER. Professor Tarp is a leading international expert on development strategy and foreign aid, with an interest in poverty, income distribution and growth, micro- and macroeconomic policy and modelling, agricultural sector policy and planning, household/enterprise development, and economic adjustment and reform as well as climate change, sustainability, and natural resources. He has published widely in leading economics and development journals and books by international academic publishers.

• 1: John Page and Finn Tarp: Overview Part I: Framing the Issues 2: Mark Henstridge: Understanding the boom 3: Martina Kirchberger: The construction sector in developing countries: some key issues 4: John Page: Rowing against the current: economic diversification in Africa Part II: Country Studies 5: Ernest Aryeetey and Ishmael Ackah: The boom, the bust, and the dynamics of oil resource management in Ghana 6: Nkechi Srodah Owoo and Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio: The construction sector in Ghana 7: Charles Godfred Ackah and Asaah S. Mohammed: Local content law and practice: the case of Ghana 8: Alan R. Roe: Mozambique-bust before boom: reflections on investment surges and new gas 9: António S. Cruz, Francisco Fernandes, Fausto J. Mafambissa, and Francisco Pereira: The construction sector in Mozambique 10: Evelyn Dietsche and Ana Maria Esteves: Local content and the prospects for economic diversification in Mozambique 11: Mark Henstridge: Gas in Tanzania: adapting to new realities 12: Geraldine J. Kikwasi and Cecilia Escalante: The construction sector in Tanzania 13: Mia Ellis and Margaret McMillan: Local content: are there benefits for Tanzania? 14: Sebastian Wolf and Vishal Aditya Potluri: Uganda's oil: how much, when, and how will it be governed? 15: Emanuele Colonnelli and Nicole Ntungire: Construction and public procurement in Uganda 16: Ritwika Sen: Enhancing local content in Uganda 17: Robert Liebenthal and Caesar Cheelo: The boom-bust cycle of global copper prices, structural change and industrial development in Zambia 18: Caesar Cheelo and Robert Liebenthal: The construction sector in Zambia 19: Wilfred C. Lombe: Local content in Zambia-a faltering experience? Part III: Policy Implications 20: John Page and Finn Tarp: Implications for public policy

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