Botswana/Nigeria/Sudan: Lifting the resource curse: extractive industry, children and governance

This report explores the reasons behind the link between mineral wealth and child poverty in countries such as Azerbaijan, Colombia, Nigeria, Sudan and Venezuela. Comparing these countries with success stories such as Botswana and Norway, the report identifies positive, practical and achievable approaches to lift the ‘resource curse’. The report argues that different actors (government, donors, extractive companies, civil society) have particular roles to play in ensuring mineral resource extraction brings benefits for ordinary citizens, and emphasises in particular that extractive companies are best placed to trigger change now.