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 …

It is a contentious issue whether large scale mining creates local employment, and the sector has been accused of … 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 …

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 …

exogenous variation, the paper shows that over 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price boom …

taxes than for non-tax revenue from oil or aid. Two identical experiments on large, representative subject pools in Ghana …

, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of …

development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …

Ghana is experiencing its third gold rush, and this paper sheds light on the socioeconomic impacts of this rapid … 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 …