Paul Segal

Research Associate

Paul Segal, Research Associate, is senior lecture in economics at the International Development Institute, King’s College London. He works on economic development, the distribution of natural resource revenues, and the macroeconomics of resource-rich countries. He completed his DPhil in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford, in 2006, having previously been a consultant economist at the UNDP in New York, a research fellow at Harvard University, and a lecturer in economics at the University of Sussex. He has been a visiting scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico City.

Anatomy of an Oil-Based Welfare State: Rent Distribution in Kuwait, with Bassam Fattouh and Laura El-Katiri, in David Held and Kristian Ulrichsen (eds.), The Transformation of the Gulf States: Politics, Economics and the Global Order, forthcoming 2011, Routledge.

Also published as an LSE Research Paper, Anatomy of an oil-based welfare state: Rent distribution in Kuwait .

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                    [post_content] => In 2004 a large discovery of oil was made in Rajasthan, a relatively poor state in north-west India. Oil began to flow in 2009. The estimated total hydrocarbons resource base in Rajasthan is 6.5 billion barrels, and the fields are estimated to have the potential to reach output levels of over 200,000 barrels of oil per day. The quantities of oil that are expected to be produced, and their resulting revenues, are significant, but unlikely to be transformative to the state’s finances. However, given low levels of economic and human development, effectively-spent resource revenues could have a significant impact on the welfare of Rajasthan’s citizens.  This paper discusses options for the use and management of oil revenues in Rajasthan, picking up the challenge from the point at which revenues start to flow to the government. The receipt and expenditure of oil revenues are matters for fiscal policy, and we consider them in the context of India’s federal system, where fiscal responsibility is divided between the federal government and state governments. Drawing on international experience, we discuss how resource revenues are spent in practice, and how they might better be used to benefit the citizens who ultimately own them.
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