Clingendael International Energy Programme CIEP

Research

Energy and sustainable development

Sustainable development in oil and gas economies

Stability of producing states is of great concern for energy markets. Unfortunately, it seems that there is a stong correlation between the problems producing states face and their resource endowment. This correlation has been called the resource curse. Rather than emphasise a deterministic relationship, CIEP prefers to pay attention to the overall causes and especially to problems of governance and the influence and role of consumer countries.