Boom Time Blues: Big oil’s gender impacts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Sakhalin
Publisher: CEE Bankwatch Network
Volume: 56 pages, pdf
Description:
Extractive industries projects are renowned for their negative impacts on a number of diff erent areas, including the environment and local communities. Large-scale extractive projects bring limited and short-term employment opportunities, often fail to provide promised support for local communities and fail to alleviate poverty. Th e economic ‘booms’ that can accompany such investments are often unsustainable, and their negative side eff ects disproportionately harm weaker social groups such as women and indigenous people.