Resource Constraints and Global Growth: Evidence from the Financial Sector

by Efundem Agboraw, Aled Jones

Overview

With substantial risks arising from resource constraints on global growth, serious questions are being posed about how a scarcity of finite resources may impact global social and political fragility. The research which forms the core of this book focuses on how this scarcity will impact the financial sector, especially through insurance, pension and banking activities. The UK finance sector, which is considered to be amongst the most globalised, is placed under the microscope, and its approaches to food and oil are particularly noteworthy. Interviews with senior financial experts are analysed alongside more traditional quantitative economic analysis to explore potential future impacts, the scope of natural resource constraints and their impact on the economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319677521
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/04/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	135
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Efundem Agboraw is Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. Her research focuses on the impact of natural resource scarcity on global economic growth.

Aled Jones is Director of the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He is one of the acknowledged global leaders in public–private finance related to the green economy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Economics and Natural Resource Constraints               

2.1 Theories on Natural Resource Scarcity

2.2 Theories on Economic Growth

2.3 Natural Resources and Economic Growth

Chapter 3. Finance and Natural Resource Constraints     

3.1 The UK Economy and Finance Sector              

3.2 Financial System Regulation

3.3 Insurance

3.4 Pensions

3.5 Banking        

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Chapter 4. Exploring the validity of literature

>4.1 Natural Resource Scarcity

4.2 Measurement of Natural Resource Scarcity

4.3 Effects of Resource Scarcity on the Economy              

4.4 Effect of Resource Scarcity on the Finance Sector

4.5 The Part of Finance Sector Most Vulnerable to Resource Scarcity

4.6 Systemic Risks

4.7 Resource with Highest Potential of Effects

4.8 Politics Versus Natural Resource Scarcity

4.9 Financial Regulation’s Role

4.10 Legislation Versus Financial Regulation in Resource Risk

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4.11 Summary of Qualitative Findings

Chapter 5. Conclusions

5.1 Systemic Risks in the Finance Sector

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2 Financial Regulations

5.3 Recommendations

Bibliography  

Index