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Journal of Economic Geography 2008 8(3):389-419; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbn009
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Global production networks and the extractive sector: governing resource-based development

Gavin Bridge*

*School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, M13 9PL. email < gavin.bridge{at}manchester.ac.uk>

JEL classifications: L71, N50, O13, Q32

This article explores the opportunities a GPN approach provides for understanding the network configurations and regional development impacts associated with extractive industries. The article elaborates two core claims: (i) that the application of the GPN analytical framework provides a way to make progress in a stalled policy debate regarding the linkages between resource extraction and socio-economic development (popularly known as the ‘resource curse thesis’); and (ii) that the encounter between GPN and a natural resource-based sector introduces distinctive issues—associated with the materiality and territoriality of extractive commodities—that, to date, GPN has not considered fully. The article examines the global production network for oil as an empirical case of how extractive industries can provide (limited) opportunities for socio-economic development.

Keywords: natural resources, global production networks, resource curse, oil
Date submitted: 14 January 2008     Date accepted: 13 February 2008


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