Robust forecasting of mining sector revenues is key to effective budgeting (and broader fiscal management) in many … maintained by revenue authorities. In contrast, commercial mining entities typically have well-developed tools for analysing …

development - particularly in the developing world. Yet while a large national income can result from resource wealth, it can also …

This paper provides a review of current thinking on the economics of international trade in mineral resources. I first … define what is meant by trade in mineral resources. I then discuss patterns of trade in mineral resources. The paper then … moves on to the five topics requested by the World Trade Organization: theoretical and empirical literature on international …

In this working paper, we explore these questions based on analysis of a dataset of mining and mineral exploration … instead to assess Chinese control over mineral flows from the Arctic using a comprehensive set of 'control parameters …'. Compared to an ownership-based approach, we begin one step further upstream in the supply chain - at mineral exploration - and …

Despite a sizeable literature, there is no consensus as to whether and how mineral resources are linked to conflict. In … this paper, we estimate the relationship between giant mineral deposit discoveries and the intensity of armed conflict … (measured by battle deaths) around the world in the post-war era. The impact of such discoveries is potentially heterogeneous …