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Citizen Dividends And Oil Resource Rents A Focus on Alaska, Norway and Nigeria, by Alanna Hartzok
Citizens of Alaska have been receiving individual dividend checks from an oil rent trust fund since 1982. Norway's citizens receive substantial social services and invest oil rents in a permanent fund for the future. Nigeria has yet to establish a similar fund for its oil revenue stream. This paper explores the oil rent institutions of Alaska, Norway and Nigeria with a focus on these questions: Are citizen dividends from oil rent funds currently or potentially a source of substantial basic income?
It has an extensive section on Nigeria, which is an excellent primer on the oil revenue distributiion and a must to read to all of us involved in the collaboration with the Ijaw People's Association
Elinor Ostrom on managing "common pool" resources
Elinor Ostrom's briefing session with community leader's in Nigeria (2001-2006)