gas mainly from the Indian Ocean. The mining boom after 1999, provided the authorities with significant lessons and …

agriculture into higher-paid jobs in the mining and service sectors. This effect is especially strong for women, who gained wage …

from mining activities, focusing on wages, firm profitability, and job creation. Utilizing exogenous changes in … minerals and metals being extracted, we find that, in the short term, a general contraction in the mining sector reduces the … evidence that a negative shock to the mining sector through vertical integration will have negative productivity impacts on the …

2018, the mining of metals and coal continued to be an important contributor to the economies of several low- and middle …-income countries. As in our previous calculations of the Mining Contribution Index, African countries in particular benefit from this … reserves of metals and minerals necessary for the low-carbon future, and in particular those with an existing mining industry …

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

The taxation of the mining industry varies considerably from nation to nation. This paper reflects on the evolving use … of various taxation approaches applied by governments to the mining sector. It includes a description of the principal … options in a holistic approach that anticipates commodity price cycles, and that mining companies should anticipate fiscal …

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 …

, where large-scale mining investment is being carried out by the mining company Vale SA. …