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 …

the long term without changing the investment behaviour of the mining companies and the long-term viability of the … by the World Bank to calculate mineral rents for mining industries other than the diamond industry. Rent calculated as …

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when … minerals are aggregated, mining increases district inequality. But an analysis of individual minerals shows that mining affects …