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agriculture into higher-paid jobs in the mining and service sectors. This effect is especially strong for women, who gained wage …
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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 … how they can use, investor–state mining contracts to advance climate goals. We synthesize our findings and recommendations …
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2018, the mining of metals and coal continued to be an important contributor to the economies of several low- and middle …-income countries. As in our previous calculations of the Mining Contribution Index, African countries in particular benefit from this … reserves of metals and minerals necessary for the low-carbon future, and in particular those with an existing mining industry …
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While market mechanisms and private initiatives can deliver much for development, public action is also necessary to: maximize the economic benefits of the extractive industries; manage potentially large capital and revenues flows; minimize adverse environmental and social impacts; and steer the...
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. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … (planned and unplanned) mining projects in Sierra Leone. A crucial insight is that new mining projects do not necessarily …
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The paper reviews the debate about transparency in extractive industry commodities trade. It examines the obstacles to improved transparency. A critical review of the experience with estimating losses from a lack of transparency concludes that many of the published estimates of losses from...
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the long term without changing the investment behaviour of the mining companies and the long-term viability of the … by the World Bank to calculate mineral rents for mining industries other than the diamond industry. Rent calculated as …
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