1. Introduction: three puzzles 2. The problem of resource booms 3. Explaining institutional breakdown 4. The Philippines: the legal slaughter of the forests 5. Sabah, Malaysia: a new state of affairs 6. Sarawak, Malaysia: an almost uncontrollable instinct 7. Indonesia: putting the forests to 'better use' 8. Conclusion: rent seeking and rent-seizing.
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