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Mining and economic development : did China's WTO accession affect African local economic development?

Addison, Tony; Boly, Amadou; Mveyange, Anthony - 2016

this exogenous variation, we show that during 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price …

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The impact of mining on spatial inequality : recent evidence from Africa

Addison, Tony; Boly, Amadou; Mveyange, Anthony - 2017

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when … minerals are aggregated, mining increases district inequality. But an analysis of individual minerals shows that mining affects …

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Extractive industries: transforming companies for better development outcomes

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

Companies in the oil, gas, and mining sectors face ever intensifying scrutiny over their environmental, social, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534815

Extractive industries: transforming states and improving economic management

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

While market mechanisms and private initiatives can deliver much for development, public action is also necessary to: maximize the economic benefits of the extractive industries; manage potentially large capital and revenues flows; minimize adverse environmental and social impacts; and steer the...

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Extractive industries: addressing transparency, corruption, and theft

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

This paper analyses the roles that states, civil society, and international actors can play in tackling the weak governance that sometimes leads to resources being used for private rather than public benefit. It discusses the corruption that bedevils licensing and commodities trading; and oil...

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Extractive industries: enclaves or a means to transform economies?

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

This paper argues for a change in government attitudes to their extractive industries: as enclaves useful primarily as revenue sources. This is too narrow a perspective: it fails to recognize the broader economic linkages that are invariably possible. Achieving greater economic impact requires...

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Extractive industries: recognizing and managing the risks in resource-dependent economies

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

This paper analyses the risks facing resource-dependent countries. These include: (i) economic mismanagement (the 'resource curse'); (ii) political mismanagement; (iii) environmental damage (climate change and the destruction of natural capital). It distinguishes 'risk' (which can be addressed...

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Extractive industries: imperatives, opportunities, and dilemmas in the net-zero transition

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

extractive industries under the sub-headings of: poverty reduction and nature; mining and environmental risk; demand and supply …

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Extractives for development : ten main messages

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2018

Countries face both challenges and opportunities in using their extractive industries to achieve more inclusive development - particularly in the developing world. Yet while a large national income can result from resource wealth, it can also be associated with acute social inequality and deep...

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