Statistics show that countries dependent on point source resources such as oil often face 20 percent lower growth rates and significantly higher risks of civil war compared to resource poor peers. In South Sudan, this reality has manifested through approximately 20 billion dollars in oil revenue lost to a toxic cocktail of corruption and conflict since 2011. We have measured our worth in barrels, but when wealth flows from a pipe rather than the…
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