Die klimaneutrale Transformation der Wirtschaft stellt die energieintensive Grundstoffindustrie in Nordrhein-Westfalen vor große Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig bieten sich in der Entwicklung grüner Grundstoffe und Produktionsprozesse auch vielversprechende Potenziale, die NRW zum...

This paper analyzes extractive industries in Colombia and their connections to other economic activities in the country. We use detailed social security data on all formal employees to create an industry-relatedness measure using labor flows between industries. Drawing on the vast network...

In our study, we individually forecast 26 metal prices one-month ahead and outperform the predefined benchmark model, a random-walk (with drift) in 18 (18) cases. These forecasts are based on an overview over a large set of potential predictors for mineral commodities, originating from studies...

With the support of Oxfam, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment reviewed select provisions in the Mines and Minerals Act 2009 and corresponding policy statements from the Minerals Policy 2018 to provide recommendations for how to best align the anticipated new mining law with...

This paper analyzes the effect of taxation on the intertemporal allocation of an exhaustible resource. A general framework within which a large variety of taxes can be analyzed is developed and then applied to a number of specific taxes. It is shown that there exists a pattern of taxation which...

Surveying existing literature, this article offers a preliminary assessment of the intersection of Indigenous governance and Arctic extractive industries, with a special focus on how Indigenous governance institutions position themselves vis-à-vis resource extraction in three regions:...

This publication on Broadening Options for Promoting Women’s Participation in the Extractive Industries Sector is a valuable contribution to exploring solutions for putting women at the heart of extractive industries activities and taking them to scale in Africa. This is only a beginning. The...