This study examines the effects of mining productivity shocks on the formal-informal duality in manufacturing and … services. Using firm census data from 2014 for Ghana, we measure the rates of informality along extensive (unregistered firms … informality along both margins across sectors following mining shocks are heterogeneous. We also find that the lack of duality …

This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic … manufacture of mining goods. Privatization and liberalization stymied local content capabilities, retarding industrialization and …