The principle of permanent sovereignty over natural resources (PSNR) has been fundamental for developing nations to realize their political and economic independence. Increasingly the principle of PSNR has been subjected to pressures which limit the rights granted to states over their natural...

This note is a user's manual for the DIGNAR-19 toolkit, an application aimed at facilitating the use of the DIGNAR-19 model by economists with no to little knowledge of Matlab and Dynare via a user-friendly Excel-based interface. he toolkit comprises three tools-the simulation tool, the graphing...

Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...