TAILIEUCHUNG - File Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development

For a long time economists have warned that abundant natural resources are bad for economic development because their exploitation stunts manufacturing exports, favours rent-seeking activities by politically well-connected people, and generally leads to unsustainable policies for which, as so often, the poor end up paying the price with lost growth and opportunity. But over the last few years the so-called resource curse has | Free download from RESOURCE sin KNOWLEDGE I DEVELOPMENT INSIGHTS FROM AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA EDITED BY JO LOREKTZEN HSRC PRESS Published by HSRC Press Private Bag X9182 Cape Town 8000 South Africa . Free download from First published 2008 ISBN 978-0-7969-2213-7 2008 Human Sciences Research Council The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Human Sciences Research Council the Council or indicate that the Council endorses the views of the authors. In quoting from this publication readers are advised to attribute the source of the information to the individual author concerned and not to the Council. Copyedited by Write Connection CC Typeset by Robin Taylor Cover by FUEL Design Print management by Greymatter Finch Printed by LogoPr int Cape Town Distributed in Africa by Blue Weaver TEL 27 0 21 701 4477 fax 27 0 21 701 7302 Distributed in Europe and the United Kingdom by Eurospan Distribution Services eds tel 44 0 20 7240 0856 fax 44 0 20 7379 0609 Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group IPG call toll-free 800 888 4741 fax 1 312 337 5985 Contents Free download from List of tables iv List of figures v Acronyms and abbreviations vi Foreword ix 1 Knowledge intensification in resource-based economies 1 Jo Lorentzen 2 The development of a sugar-based plastic in Brazil 49 Léa Velho and Paulo Velho 3 The manufacture of biodegradable plastics from maize starch a case of technological migration adaptation and learning in South Africa 89 Marian Walker 4 Cleaning pollution from mining to environmental remediation 125 Juana Kuramoto and Francisco Sagasti 5 Missed opportunities A case study from South Africa s mining sector 179 Thomas E Pogue 6 From coffee production to machines for optical selection a case of lateral migration in Costa

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