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Over the last half century, large-scale changes to coal industries across Europe, and more recently in the United States and China, have resulted in as many as 4 million coal workers losing their jobs. The main drivers of these changes are mine mechanization, government policies and competition...
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development patterns that would significantly be less GHG intensive. One might assume that nonrenewable resource development and …
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social legitimacy, to move forward successfully with the development of an extensive mining project pipeline. The country now …'s sustainable development. The government also faces the major challenge of artisanal and small-scale mining formalization and …The facts and events that have shaped the strengths of the Peruvian mining industry are well established. Private …
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development of the mining sector and the government's approach to mobilizing finance. As recommended in the World Bank's Policy … fresh private capital to support development of the mining sector. The purpose of this analysis is to prompt an open debate …Mining dominates the Mongolian economy, already accounting for some 80 percent of exports and contributing a quarter of …
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In every mining region across the globe, there are a multitude of entities primarilyfocused on progressing the … interests of women in mining. At the national level,the most notable interest group is that of Women in Mining (WIM …
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Mining has been central to the social and economic narrative of Southern Africa, and has been a key provider of … early years, mining developed on the back of migrant workers from across Southern Africa who toiled in the mines under poor … conditions. Many ex-miners suffer from vocational diseases to this day. While mining has helped build the economies of Southern …
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The twelfth Zambia economic brief with a focus on how Zambia can harness its renewable resources to promote sustainable growth. This brief is part of a series of short economic updates produced twice a year by the World Bank
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The Botswana Mining Investment and Governance Review (MInGov) collects and shares information on mining sector … governance, its attractiveness to investors and how its activities affect national development. It reviews sector performance … from the perspective of three main stakeholder groups "government, investors in the mining value chain and civil society …
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they operate, particularly in sectors such as mining and oil and gas. Even the more socially responsible corporations have …
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While on-track for child health and maternal health MDGs, Lao PDR continues to have some of the worst maternal and … child health (MCH) outcomes, both globally and in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Under-five and infant mortality … rates are high relative to GDP per capita, and utilization of essential health services is low, given significant demand …
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