This paper takes stock with the results of utility privatization in Bolivia. This paper deals with the process of … electricity industry has indeed lessen poverty levels in urban Bolivia by making this utility more accessible to larger segments … of the urban population. The same cannot be said, however, about rural Bolivia. The results show that coverage has …

is the key factor. The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia holds the largest source of lithium in the world; however, its … water use from the San Geronimo River creates two mutually exclusive projects, lithium mining and quinoa crop with …

past few years, Venezuela and Bolivia have announced plans to renationalizetheir oil and natural gas industry.The first … focusing specifically on four countries – Bolivia,Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria. There are various components influencing the …

This paper investigates the mining industry's poor productivity performance as measured by the conventional multifactor … productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We derive a relationship between the measured and 'true' MFP … average MFP growth in Australian mining based on the dual measure of technical change is nearly 2% over the sample period 1974 …

to easily extract data; the field has little confidence in data; people spend more time mining data than analyzing data …

The Intermountain Center for Mining Research and Development (ICMRD) was established with the Idaho National Laboratory … (INL) as the cornerstone, and with regional universities, mining schools, and the Western mining industry as full members …. In aggregate, the members provide the strong mining research and development capabilities and knowledge that are …

fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …

This paper examines Australian media representations of the male managers of two global mining corporations, Rio Tinto … the world's largest mining company. In terms of its profits and assets Rio Tinto ranks fourth in the world, but with …