This paper suggests that it is essential to save a substantial portion of mineral revenues now to ensure fiscal sustainability for a post-diamond period. Taking the non-mineral primary balance into account can help clarify desirable fiscal policies. Botswana’s real effective exchange rate...

This work has the aim of knowing the situation in which the regions and the coal firms are in Europe – a very relevant issue since on December 31, 2018, all the EU and State mining aids will be suppressed. Specifically, it proposes a socioeconomic rank of the regions, and it also builds a rank...

The paper reflects on why, despite recent advances in the area of environmental governance, environmental and associated social problems continue to proliferate in Sierra Leone׳s mining regions. These issues have yet to be explored in depth, perhaps due to the relative ‘newness’ of the...