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-intensive, mining booms cause virtually no upward pressure on manufacturing earnings per worker, and both producers of traded and local … goods benefit from mining booms in terms of employment. In contrast, labour-intensive mining booms drive up local …
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-intensive, mining booms cause virtually no upward pressure on manufacturing earnings per worker, and both producers of traded and local … goods benefit from mining booms in terms of employment. In contrast, labour-intensive mining booms drive up local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892288
What is required for a poor country to turn a valuable resource endowment into a driver of development? The resource curse literature highlighted the importance of institutions and the nature of the resource, neither of which is a useful policy guide. A more recent literature views resource...
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The natural resources economics, allows to get to know the shape sustainable extractions to opencast coal mining …
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the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced … monitoring of success, the ongoing tension between companies, communities, and governments regarding the role of mining in … to assess and track mining's contribution to human and ecosystem wellbeing over the full project and product lifecycles …
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Multi-national energy and mining companies used to play a significant role in exploring and exploiting Southeast Asia …
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monitor these laws. Effectiveness of local content legislation and the potential for firms in the mining sector to contribute …
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This paper analyses the roles that states, civil society, and international actors can play in tackling the weak governance that sometimes leads to resources being used for private rather than public benefit. It discusses the corruption that bedevils licensing and commodities trading; and oil...
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This paper argues for a change in government attitudes to their extractive industries: as enclaves useful primarily as revenue sources. This is too narrow a perspective: it fails to recognize the broader economic linkages that are invariably possible. Achieving greater economic impact requires...
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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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