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Unraveling the network of the extractive industries
Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Guerra, Alfredo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2021
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...
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Profit sharing under the threat of nationalization
Di Corato, Luca - 2010
A government bargains a mutually convenient agreement with a multinational corporation to extract a natural resource. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the...
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Extractive industries and the financing of child-inclusive social development in the Philippines : trends and policy frameworks
Magno, Cielo - 2016
The success of a developmental strategy based on the extraction of non-renewable resources is largely dependent on the share of revenues captured by the state from the extractive sector and the modalities that governments adopt to use and distribute those revenues. In the last two decades, local...
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Digging deep : resource exploitation and higher education
Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Rivera, … - 2022
Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in...
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The mineral sector in Latin America - adaptation to the crisis, with an emphasis on the Brazilian experience
Rudawsky, Oded - 1989
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Does social conflict in rural regions decrease firm ownership? : evidence from the mining sector in Latin America
Chong, Alberto; Haslam, Paul A. - 2019
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Mineral policy issues in the context of export and domestic use of iron ore in India
Firoz, A. S. (contributor) - 2008
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Phasing out coal : a just transition approach
Galgóczi, Béla - 2019
The clock is ticking and time is running short for us to have a realistic chance to get climate change under control and prevent it becoming irreversible and selfsustaining. Phasing out coal is widely seen as a 'low hanging fruit' of climate policy commitments in the move towards a net zero...
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EU15 trade with emerging economies and rentier states : leveraging geography
Gaulier, Guillaume; Lemoine, Françoise; Ünal-Kesenci, … - 2009
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The political economy of financing childrenś rights through extractive industries in the Philippines
Singh, Jewellord T. Nem; Grugel, Jean B.; Hatcher, Pascale - 2016
Philippines as a case study and provides a detailed analysis of two key aspects of mining governance: first, the political … expansion of the EI sector is contested in the public domain, the link between mining governance and the promotion and … take a more active role in laying the foundations of a mining governance framework, bargain with key stakeholders to reach …
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