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 …

firms in the iron ore mining sector in Liberia between 1951 and 1985 under a system where royalties were levied on the per … unit level of production and on the basis of the price of the ore. It investigates whether iron ore mining companies have … where: (a) base-mining operations are vertically integrated and firms employ transfer pricing between mining and upstream …

mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in the last two decades. The authors find evidence that producing … rate, and higher literacy. However, the positive impacts from mining decrease significantly with administrative and … producing province. The inequalizing impact of mining activity, both across and within districts, may explain part of the …

poor impact of mining on Ghana's economic development, this paper highlights the vulnerabilities in mining sector … improved social welfare. They find that incentive problems in institutions directly or peripherally involved in mining … regulatory levels. The paper argues that the net impact of mining on economic development is likely to be enhanced with …

Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about …

would dominate the losses for the other countries. The return on the new investments for Africa as a whole would be positive …

This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors examine …

The objective of this paper is to determine the ability of farmers in Africa to detect climate change, and to ascertain …