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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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information on gold mining activities, and conducts two types of difference-in-differences estimations that provide complementary … among migrant children. Overall, however, infant mortality rates decrease significantly in mining communities …
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unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger macroeconomic stability and Botswana's reputation as Africa's success story … revenue potential. Opportunities also exist to generate more revenue from the non-mining sector through changes in the tax … further. Looking ahead, growth of a dynamic non-mining sector is crucial for Botswana not only from the fiscal sustainability …
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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 …
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Using newly collected survey data on direct supplier-multinational linkages in Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Vietnam, this paper first evaluates whether foreign investors differ from domestic producers in terms of their potential to generate positive spillovers for...
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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 …
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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 …
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unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger macroeconomic stability and Botswana's reputation as Africa's success story … revenue potential. Opportunities also exist to generate more revenue from the non-mining sector through changes in the tax … further. Looking ahead, growth of a dynamic non-mining sector is crucial for Botswana not only from the fiscal sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976285