This paper empirically studies the effect of public procurement on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Republic of Korea using firm-level data. Public procurement, the purchase of goods and services from private firms by the public sector, is regarded as an important policy measure...

Resources depletion means the situation in which the consumption of resources if faster than its replenishment. The resources of the world can be divided into mainly two categories as renewable and non- renewable. The characteristic of resources is utility, limited availability and potential for...

The natural resources economics, allows to get to know the shape sustainable extractions to opencast coal mining projects at the middle of the Cesar-Colombia. Thus, this study with financial information and total productions cost (estimated by means of panel data model with random effects), from...

The 2009 Africa Mining Vision (AMV) provides guidance for the industrialization of African countries by leveraging their mining sector. However, the global context has changed since its adoption. As a result, it does not include guidance on how governments should embrace the climate change...

Domestic laws are the ideal legal instrument to regulate the mining sector’s contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Even so, as a stop-gap-measure, governments may consider updating model mining development agreements (MMDAs) or negotiating climate­-related contractual...

This paper investigates the effect of institutional quality on sustainable development.Institutional quality is assumed to determine the (perceived) risk in the face of which oil and mining firms determine their level of investment in physical and natural capital. Since these two types of...

This work contains the results of a series of discussions with leading representatives of 58 mining and quarrying firms, equipment manufacturers and research institutions. They showed the importance of collaborative technology research and the critical role of mine personnel.

In 2008, the Government of Zambia reformed its mining tax regime for large-scale copper mines through a unilateral legislative change. The country went from having one of the lowest average effective tax rates and government take to be above the average. We focus on a particularly controversial...

Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...

In 2018, the Indian government produced a draft mineral policy for non-fuel minerals (DMP). By analysing some interesting features of the policy concerning the grant of mining rights, the use of mineral receipts and the participation of local communities in land use decision making, this piece...