Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its …

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 …

this exogenous variation, we show that during 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price …