Life in the time of oil : a pipeline and poverty in Chad /

Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project--a partnership between global oil companies, the World Bank, and the Chadian government that was an ambitious scheme to reduce poverty in one of the poorest countries on the African continent. Key to the pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leonard, Lori (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press 2016.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1b7x4td
Table of Contents:
  • 1. An experiment in development
  • 2. Dead letters
  • 3. Becoming "eligible"
  • 4. Ties that bind
  • 5. In the midst of things
  • 6. Footprints.