This briefing paper is organised with the following sections:1. FDI arrangements for investment, milling, training, proportion of foreign staff2. Unregistered and unapproved changes in ownership structure of the Asian companies/trading of logging concessions3. Illegal renting and managerial...

Some of the consequences of the revision of Guyana's Mining Act in 1989 that was intended to open up access to international mining companies while safeguarding national mining interests are examined. However, a perverse outcome of the revision was that landlordism or rentier practices in the...