We investigate whether mining affects local-level corruption in Africa. Several cross-country analyses report that … 500 industrial mines. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find evidence that mining increases bribe payments …. Mines are initially located in less corrupt areas, but mining areas turn more corrupt after mines open and actively produce …

this exogenous variation, we show that during 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price …

explore how the mining industry has been managed, and wider economic management during boom periods. We find that successive … ringfence and prudently use the mineral revenues from copper mining in building productive capacities remains elusive. Instead …

Motivated by the fact that the taxation of natural resources is both crucial and particularly challenging for … conclude to the absence of such an eviction effect: we observe no effect of oil revenue on non-oil taxes through taxation …

explore the case of Peru, a mining-rich middle income country where -exploiting a unique data set constructed for this purpose …- we are able to assess systematic differences in district-level welfare outcomes between mining and non-mining districts …. We find evidence that the condition of being mining-abundant district have a significant impact on the pace of reduction …