This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral …-wide consequences of mineral exports. Africa's resource boom has lifted growth, but has been less successful in improving people … communities in Africa in which the extraction of resources takes place …

hurting women's labor supply and economic opportunities. This paper uses the rapid expansion of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa …. Effects are stronger in years of high world prices. Mining creates local boom-bust economies in Africa, with permanent effects …It is a contentious issue whether large scale mining creates local employment, and the sector has been accused of …

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 …

exogenous variation, the paper shows that over 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price boom … China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local …

This paper investigates the local effects of mining on the quality of public services and on people's optimism about … data on the mines and their respective status from the SNL Metals and Mining. The geo-referenced data are matched with new … local governance, high incidence of bribe payment and low level of trust in local government officials. Residents of mining …

This book presents the results of a study on transfer pricing (TP) with specific focus on mining in Africa commissioned … mining value chain. Part B (The mining industry in Africa and transfer pricing) considers the same issues specifically in the … inventory of current mining operations in Africa and information about the revenue and cost structure of typical operations to …

sectors of the economy, consequently leading to a reduction in the number of employment opportunities in Africa. Using geodata … that electricity shortages exert a substantial negative impact on employment rates in Africa. The evidence also shows three …

the effort to develop a regional platform for addressing TB in the mining sector in southern Africa. The primary focus of … (TB) in the Mining Sector Initiative--an innovative multisectoral, multicountry, public-private regional initiative. It … evidence base for practitioners working in TB management in the mining sector. Despite the achievements that have been made and …

mining industry, which provides input to almost every product and service in the world, is highly relevant to the goal of … is a critical concern for mining companies, whose growth is increasingly affected by climate change. Given the centrality … of minerals and metals to our way of living, Building Resilience: A Green Growth Framework for Mobilizing Mining …