We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight … (<20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints of more distant firms relax. The negative local impact of mining …

supply chains - and how this decision affects performance. We exploit matched customs and balance-sheet data from China …

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it …

Did the 2018/19 US-China trade war trigger adjustment of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and nearshoring to Mexico? We … in GVC activities in Mexico with linkages to Asian and US-based GVCs. Our analysis also reveals increased net exports and … domestic activities in Mexico. However, we also document a negative impact of the retaliatory tariffs of China, primarily …

-intensive, mining booms cause virtually no upward pressure on manufacturing earnings per worker, and both producers of traded and local … goods benefit from mining booms in terms of employment. In contrast, labour-intensive mining booms drive up local …

to study the impact of economic sanctions on international trade in the mining sector, which includes oil and natural gas …. We demonstrate that the gravity equation is well suited to model bilateral trade in mining and find that sanctions have … been effective in impeding mining trade. Our analysis reveals that complete trade sanctions have reduced bilateral mining …

. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … (planned and unplanned) mining projects in Sierra Leone. A crucial insight is that new mining projects do not necessarily …

the distance to school, their safety when commuting to school, lack of agency, and deep-rooted cultural norms. In Zambia …