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This paper reviews the German miners' model of mutual insurance from its introduction in 1854 to its basic reformation in 1923. Its core feature was the provision of cash benefits for compensation of income losses due to temporary sickness and permanent invalidity or death of the bread-winner....
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Industrial mining is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, particularly in the Global … South. The present mining boom is, however, accompanied by numerous conflicts: conflicts over labour relations, over … ecological systems, and over the distribution of profits and tax revenues. In this paper, a typology of mining conflicts is …
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' framing strategies in conflicts over large-scale mining and agro-industrial projects. Discursive opportunity structures (DOS … discursive structures. Empirically, the study compares conflicts over gold mining and agro-industry in Senegal. Some elements of …Konflikte um großflächige Landtransformationen zugunsten von Bergbau und Agrarindustrie haben in den letzten Jahren …
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mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the …
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protests against gold and coal mining. …
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governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia … the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia. They focus on the ways in which resource governance and national …
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mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in the last two decades. We find evidence that producing districts have … higher literacy. However, the positive impacts from mining decrease significantly with administrative and geographic distance …. The inequalizing impact of mining activity, both across and within districts, may explain part of the current social …
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contribution of non-fuel minerals mining to low- and middle-income economies. Using the detailed data available for the minerals … sector, an analysis is carried out of the current situation for 2014, and of trends in mining's contribution to economic … development for the years 1996-2014. The contribution of minerals and mining to gross domestic product and exports reached a …
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with twelve major exporting companies in the jewelery sector in Peru. The results of the investigation show that the most … understanding of markets, foreign clients, competition, knowledge of the documents and certificates necessary for an export … product with characteristics of innovation that generates better export results and, therefore, have a competitive position …
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