Migration has brought about, and continues to be responsible for, some of the most momentous social, economic, and political changes in the contemporary world. Over the years, millions of people have moved from their rural homes in search of better paid work, usually in cities many thousands of...

This paper assesses whether the market valuation of gold mining firms contain a premium for the option to close. Tests of whether observed market values incorporate operating flexibility is central to our understanding of the processes that drive market values and has implications for the...

Commodity producers in general typically have a commodity driven cost baseas well as commodity price driven revenue stream. The research reportinvestigates the correlation between input commodity price and gold price forgold mining companies, and how commodity price behaviour could...

Commodity producers in general typically have a commodity driven cost baseas well as commodity price driven revenue stream. The research reportinvestigates the correlation between input commodity price and gold price forgold mining companies, and how commodity price behaviour could...

Earnings from gold mining in Australia remained tax-exempt for almost seven decades until January 1, 1991. In the early 1980s, rapid economic prosperity induced by escalated gold prices brought the Australian gold-mining industry under intense political scrutiny. Using a variant of the modified...

Detailed weekly sales transactions data for the period January 2000-June 2001 from three frontier markets in the central corridor of West Africa were analyzed to identify the factors influencing short-run, intra-year cattle prices. The empirical results indicate that in addition to market...

Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different countries. The results are interpreted in the context of...

This paper assesses the potential economic impacts of balanced nutrient management systemstechnology options: BNMS-manure, which combines inorganic fertilizer and organic manure,and BNMS-rotation, which is maize–soybean rotation, in maize-based systems in the northernGuinea savanna areas of...

This study aims at highlighting the politics of international cooperation with respect tomonetary integration in West Africa. Monetary integration was envisaged in theEconomic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) when the organization wasformed in 1975. Two decades after its formation, it...

Plans are far advanced to form a second monetary union, the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ), in Africa. While much attention is being placed on convergence criteria and preparedness of the five aspiring member states, less attention is being placed on how the dynamics of inflation in...