Contents June issue

Editorial

Hans Dembowski:
Regulate extractive industries and make them serve the nation

Monitor

European Development Report discusses scarcity of water, energy and land | Law in Arab nations | Support for victims of trauma | Burundi’s civil war in perspective | Africa Progress Report 2012 | In brief


Focus: Natural resources

Aditi Roy Ghatak:
India’s mining regions suffer from corruption and violent unrest

Interview with Paul Collier:
The need for a “better narrative” in regard to resource wealth

Floreana Miesen:
Blood diamonds in Sierra Leone and Liberia

Interview with Peter Eigen:
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative needs more members

Pedro Morazán and Marie Müller:
Fair gold – How to improve the lives of small-scale miners in Peru and the DR Congo

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Annegret Mähler and Gabriele Neusser:
Explosive matter: gas and oil extraction in Bolivia

Lutz Neumann:
Review essay: relevant reading on natural resources and development


Tribune

Interview with Rabiaa Ouerimi:
German-Tunisian school exchange for adolescents with disabilities

Alan C. Robles:
Expensive, but not necessarily good: higher education in the Philippines

Raphael Mweninguwe:
Malawi’s street vendors need livelihoods, but some people consider their business an eyesore

Henning Melber:
Rule of law: on the state of the developmental state


Debate

Comments on China’s next leaders and on the crisis in Mali | Letters | Petition for uncensored textbooks in India