Qualitative studies and media reports suggest that the presence of Chinese oil or mining companies generates … Afrobarometer surveys, this paper examines whether Chinese-controlled mining promotes anti-Chinese sentiments among the local … populations of sub-Saharan African countries. In addition, we test the effect of mining contractors' nationality on socio …

(CDAs) in the mining sector in Africa. It focuses on legal regimes that mandate CDAs as distinct from those that merely … require mining companies to engage in community development activities in their areas of operation. The article highlights the …

power relationships, in terms of control over mining rents, relationships between mining companies and domestic business …

is that gender inequality in economic opportunities may increase with mining. This paper is the first multi …-country quantitative analysis of the local employment impacts for men and women of large-scale mining in the African continent. Using exact …-in-difference estimation exploiting the spatial and temporal variation in mining. We show that industrial mine opening is a mixed blessing for …

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 …

-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …

This paper focuses on the role of international development think tanks in the realisation of the Africa Mining Vision … mining corporations in Africa and by the fact that Africa constitutes not less than one-third of the geographical focus of … (AMV), launched in February 2009 by the Economic Commission for Africa and the African Union to articulate a new vision for …