Social Analysis, Volume 61, Issue 3, Autumn 2017, 56–72 © Berghahn Books doi:10.3167/sa.2017.610304 • ISSN 0155-977X (Print) • ISSN 1558-5727 (Online) THE DEVIL’S MONEY A Multi-level Approach to Acceleration and Turbulence in Oil-Producing Southern Chad Andrea Behrends and Remadji Hoinathy Abstract: This article analyzes the effects of a World Bank–promoted oil revenue distribution model in Chad. The authors engage the clas- sic anthropological concerns of kinship and land tenure to examine how oil money has affected the southern Chadian oil zone. In deter- mining whether oil money differs from money originating in other industries, two examples are used: the effects of salaries from pipeline construction on marriage payments and the effects of compensation payments on land ownership and kinship. With regard to these effects, the authors argue that oil generates a uniquely disruptive form of local inlation. They conclude that despite the World Bank’s measures to ensure that its oil model is transparent and socially just, these disrup- tions inhere in the model itself. Keywords: Chad, development model, kin networks, land loss, local inlation, oil revenues, uncertainty, World Bank This article takes a multi-level approach to analyzing the effects of oil produc- tion in southern Chad. A multi-level analysis combines the international level of policy making in regard to oil production in Chad with the national level of land ownership and the local level of the region’s people and their experiences. Several actors are brought into focus on each level. On the international level we look at the World Bank policy makers who, together with several govern- mental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), drew up a model for development-oriented oil revenue distribution. This model—which the World Bank eventually abandoned—was to be an exemplary approach, an integrated social technology combining a range of legal, political, social, and economic practices, committees, and institutions to guarantee stability and growth in a country where a volatile political situation would otherwise harm investment in oil production. The intention was to pre-establish transparency of money lows