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This study examines the utilization of iron ore in India. It takes into account thesignificant reserves of iron ore in India and allays fears that the country's steel industrywill run out of iron ore resources if exports continue at the current level. On the contrary,it says that exports are...
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A government bargains a mutually convenient agreement with a multinational corporation to extract a natural resource. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the...
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We consider a competitive extraction industry comprising many small firms, each with a slightly different quality of mineral holdings. With "rapidly" declining quality of holding per firm we observe rent declining over and interval. We do not work with the planning solution, commonly invoked in...
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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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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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protests against gold and coal mining. …
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China is today the second-largest economy after the US and the world-leading export nation. The economic and political development of China in the past decades has had a big impact on other parts of the world. The Chinese demand for natural resources has dramatically changed trade volumes and...
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