Oil Explorations and Socioeconomic Impacts of Production in Sudan (in Arabic)

Abstract

The current paper reviews issues of oil exploration, extraction and production in Sudan. It is presumed that the oil curse has doomed the country's cohesion as a state and accelerated its foreseen fragmentation. The referendum on secession of Southern Sudan is phase one. Other regions complaints of underdevelopment, negligence of the central government are high. Gradually, they turned into reasoning from federation to secession solutions. The analysis conducted in this paper detail facts of disposing with oil revenues during the past years. Very little amounts were diverted towards, health services, education, employment and job generation. The conflicts on wealth distributions were evident in the political arena. Moreover, the Sudanese economy saw downward trends throughout the past years. Inflation rates escalated and impacts on the global financial crisis were reflected in deep stagflation. There were noticeable deterioration in the other economic sectors. The country's small industrial sector became dead. The agricultural sector was unable even to provide enough food for the country's population. Unemployment rates escalated and there were huge deficits in the balance of payments. The performance of the Sudanese economy, en total, suffered a strong wave of hyperinflation. However, the present economic status of the country cannot be described as suffering from the Dutch disease or Nigerian syndrome. It is apparently a case of mismanagement and ill-allocation of oil resources gained through the past ten years.

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Keywords: Oil, Unemployment, Social Injustice, Secession, Poverty