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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 paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. We compare the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare of mineral-rich districts, both prior and after China's WTO Accession, to the...
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Approaches to supporting local and community development : Brazil and the Vale SA model of corporate interaction
Filgueiras, Liesel; Rabetim, Andreia; Aché, Isabel - 2017
Reflection about the role of corporate social investment in Brazil, associated with the presence of a large economic enterprise, is the major stimulus of this paper. It seeks to present how cross-sector governance can contribute to the social development of a city and how this process can be led...
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Approaches to supporting local and community development : the view from Zambia
Mondoloka, Angel - 2017
Mining is the largest sector of the Zambian economy but, as has been the case elsewhere, the relationship between mining companies and their host communities has been fractious, without a clear path towards sustainability. The severe social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607491
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The role of participation in sustainable community development programmes in the extractives industries
McDonald, Catherine - 2017
A major challenge for almost all extractives activity is that benefits accrue predominantly at the national level while disruptions are invariably highly localized close to the resource. Recently, extractives companies have intensified efforts to correct this imbalance. The aim of this paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595746
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Civic legacies of wartime governance
Justino, Patricia; Stojetz, Wolfgang - 2019
In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to 'wartime governance' on social and political behaviour. We operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152046
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How do we legislate for improved community development?
Otto, James M. - 2017
A large mining project has the potential to be a partner in assisting local communities in their development efforts. Communities located in close proximity to a large mine have every right to expect that the project will benefit their community. Often, reality falls short of their expectations...
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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam
Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015
Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means … the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326184
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Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements : prospecting a mineralized future
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2014
employment opportunities for unskilled African labourers. Youth residing in mining settlements, have a large vested interest in … school students towards mining as a form of employment and its impact on economic and social life in mining communities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228733
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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John M.; Shimeles, Abebe - 2014
to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010243497
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The care connection : the World Bank and women's unpaid care work in select sub- Saharan African countries
Bibler, Sarah; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013
With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority …
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