The World’s Mineral Powers Seize Their Moment
Resource-rich countries haven’t always benefited from extraction. Can this time be different?
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Resource-rich countries haven’t always benefited from extraction. Can this time be different?
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The US Export-Import Bank is preparing to close the first funding tranche of Project Vault, a public-private partnership establishing the US Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve.
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Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Antony Millner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He works on a variety of applied theory topics in economics, often with a focus on environmental applications. Current research topics include intertemporal choice and discounting, decision-making under uncertainty, the economics of climate change and other long-run global risks, and political and behavioural economics.
In addition to his position at UCSB, Millner is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an affiliate of the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, a Senior Research Associate at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University, and a Fellow of the CESIfo Research Network.
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