What do we know about the sharing of mineral resource rent in Africa

摘要: Abstract Governments that lack the capacity to mine resources themselves have attract foreign direct investment. However, since are not renewable, countries need capture a ‘fair’ share of mineral resource rent promote their development. While sharp rise world prices most minerals multiplied total natural rents by 2.3 between 2002 and 2008 ( World Bank, 2015 ), tax revenue earned African governments from non-renewable sector only grew factor 1.5 Mansour, 2014 ).The sharing investors is often criticised for being unfavourable governments. But what do we really know about in Africa? The aim this study review theoretical empirical studies on Africa note limitations regarding knowledge actual rent.