with only modest success. This paper looks at what the country needs to do to create a mining fiscal regime that could … for mining within the tax agency, preferably headed by a commissioner, could help enhance productivity. …

Mining resources have played an important role in the economy of Zambia. The country faces serious development … challenges. This Working Paper investigates to which extent the mining of natural resources has facilitated public action … regarding these challenges or whether, on the contrary, mining has had a neutral or even counterproductive impact. …

The contribution of mining to economic and social development in Sub-Saharan Africa is under increased scrutiny and …-sharing in mining has been notoriously difficult to achieve. In this paper, we present a simple method to benchmark the degree of … revenue-sharing in some major mining countries. This is utilised to estimate the amount of mining revenue foregone due to …