hurting women’s labor supply and economic opportunities. This paper uses the rapid expansion of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa …. Effects are stronger in years of high world prices. Mining creates local boom-bust economies in Africa, with permanent effects …It is a contentious issue whether large scale mining creates local employment, and the sector has been accused of …

This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral …-wide consequences of mineral exports. Africa’s resource boom has lifted growth, but has been less successful in improving people … communities in Africa in which the extraction of resources takes place …

The mineral potential of West Africa has been the impetus for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the sub-region. In a …

With growing international interest in mineral resources in Central Africa, the importance of transparency in resource … impacting the effectiveness of transparency in mining development in the region …

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when … minerals are aggregated, mining increases district inequality. But an analysis of individual minerals shows that mining affects …