This edited volume explores the link between natural resources and civil conflict, focusing especially on protest and violence in the context of mining and the extraction of minerals. The primary goal of the book is to analyze how the conflict-inducing effect of natural resources is mediated by...

Questions about the ultimate size of mineral and energy resource endowments and the degree of fiscal prudence which should be exercised by countries engaged in resource extraction have become central for many developing countries during the recent resource boom. To explore these questions, this...

Nach Auflösung der UdSSR drängten aus ihren Nachfolgestaaten unerwartet hohe Exporte metallischer Rohstoffe auf die Weltmärkte und verstärkten den ohnehin bestehenden Angebotsüberhang und Preisverfall. Im Auftrage des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft wurden die Hintergründe dieser...

Efforts to document government support benefiting specific sectors or industries have so far paid scant attention to support given to the non-energy minerals sector. In this paper the issue of support for this sector is explored by way of a case study of Australia, a leading producer and...