help address a wide range of its economic challenges. This report focuses on Mongolia’s selected issues in the mining … sector, government employment and wages, and saving and credit cooperatives. The attractiveness of Mongolia’s mining sector …

examines the effects of the early twenty-first century copper boom on risky sexual behavior in Zambian copper mining cities … copper mining cities. These effects were partly concentrated among young adults and copper boom induced in-migration to …. The results suggest that the copper boom substantially reduced rates of transactional sex and multiple partnerships in …

, the influence of mining industries on forests has not well been understood in the copper belt of Zambia and Democratic … Republic of Congo (DRC). This study was undertaken, in Chingola District in Zambia, operation centre for Konkola Copper Mines … copper mining, forest management and forest-based livelihoods. A multi-site approach was utilized for consultations with …

This paper investigates the dynamics of upstream linkages development to copper mining in Zambia. The breadth and depth … value chain governance. In fact, forward linkages to buyers other than Chinese and Indian mining companies, and backward … linkages to parent companies and technology providers were critical in supporting supply firms' success in the mining value …

Copper mining is among the largest economic activities in Zambia, comprising close to ten percent of GDP. Between 2003 … and 2008, the price of copper increased by over 400 percent. In response, copper production in Zambia grew by 70 percent … and employment in copper mining increased by nearly 200 percent. This paper examines the effect of this large and …

describe how the state has adopted different strategies to secure a share of the rents from copper mining, how these strategies … recent reforms to the mining taxation regime and in the conduct of macroeconomic policy have left Zambia better-placed to …This paper examines the macroeconomic management of Zambia’s natural resource endowment over the past century. We …

examines the effects of the early twenty-first century copper boom on risky sexual behavior in Zambian copper mining cities … copper mining cities. These effects were partly concentrated among young adults and copper boom induced in-migration to …. The results indicate that the copper boom substantially reduced rates of transactional sex and multiple partnerships in …

industrial upgrading in a developing economy through an analysis of the mobile telecom sector in China. Over the last decade …, China has become the world's largest market for mobile phones, and domestic Chinese firms have been able to take advantage …

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on choice of technology in copper mining and processing in Zambia - discusses production …