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The inequality-resource curse of conflict : heterogeneous effects of mineral deposit discoveries

Smits, Joeri; Tessema, Yibekal; Sakamoto, Takuto; … - 2016

Despite a sizeable literature, there is no consensus as to whether and how mineral resources are linked to conflict. In … this paper, we estimate the relationship between giant mineral deposit discoveries and the intensity of armed conflict … with respect to mineral commodity type: metals with a low value-to-weight ratio are not easy to exploit and smuggle and …

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Boosting mineral revenues in Zambia : policy options for a sustainable fiscal regime

Mwaba, Andrew; Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Steve - 2021

Zambia has changed its mineral tax regime repeatedly during the past decades in a bid to raise mineral revenue, but … agency (the Zambia Revenue Authority) for analysing mineral tax and related policies, including issues of domiciliation …

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Revenue forecasting in the mining industries : a data-driven approach

Jones, Benjamin - 2020

Robust forecasting of mining sector revenues is key to effective budgeting (and broader fiscal management) in many resource-rich countries. However, this is challenging in practice, given commodity market volatility, the extended lags (and often opaque processes) between resource discoveries and...

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Terms of trade and growth of resource economies : a tale of two countries

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2011

The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as case studies the two African countries, Botswana and Nigeria.Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the effect of terms of trade on output is positive and...

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Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements : prospecting a mineralized future

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2014

Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a "mining take-off". Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-intensive artisanal mining, which, at...

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Is Kazakhstan vulnerable to natural resource curse?

Oskenbayev, Yessengali; Karimov, Aziz - 2013

This study utilizes panel data from 14 provinces of Kazakhstan and investigates the link between the point-source resources (oil and gas) and economic growth via institutional quality. Labour force migration from manufacturing to non-traded sector occurs as a result of wage increase in the...

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Capital flight and foreign direct investment in Africa : an investigation of the role of natural resource endowment

Ndikumana, Léonce; Sarr, Mare - 2016

This paper aims to provide theoretical and empirical insights into the puzzling simultaneous rise in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Africa and capital flight from the continent over the past decades. It specifically explores two questions: Is FDI a potential driver of capital flight?...

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Natural resource revenues and public investment in resource-rich economies in sub-Saharan Africa

Karimu, Amin; Adu, George; Marbuah, George; Mensah, … - 2016

The general policy prescription for resource-rich countries is that, for sustainable consumption, a greater percentage of the windfall from resource rents should be channelled into accumulating foreign assets such as a sovereign public fund as done in Norway and other developed but resource-rich...

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Transparency in extractive industry commodities trading

Östensson, Olle - 2020

The paper reviews the debate about transparency in extractive industry commodities trade. It examines the obstacles to improved transparency. A critical review of the experience with estimating losses from a lack of transparency concludes that many of the published estimates of losses from...

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The electric vehicle revolution : economic and policy implications for natural resource exporters in developing countries

Jones, Benjamin - 2020

The emergence of a mass market for electric vehicles (EVs) offers considerable development opportunities for resource exporters, given their intensive raw material requirements, including for cobalt, nickel, lithium, copper, aluminium, and manganese. To exploit the benefits of new demand,...

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