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 …

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 …

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 …