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The paper reviews the debate about transparency in extractive industry commodities trade. It examines the obstacles to improved transparency. A critical review of the experience with estimating losses from a lack of transparency concludes that many of the published estimates of losses from...
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Companies in the oil, gas, and mining sectors face ever intensifying scrutiny over their environmental, social, and …
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. Sharing power and transport infrastructure can further strengthen further the linkages from extractive industries to local and …
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This paper analyses the risks facing resource-dependent countries. These include: (i) economic mismanagement (the 'resource curse'); (ii) political mismanagement; (iii) environmental damage (climate change and the destruction of natural capital). It distinguishes 'risk' (which can be addressed...
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paradigm on mining for development suggests that mineral-rich developing countries need to formulate a fiscal policy that can … of mining companies in poor remote communities is sufficient to initiate development. In this discussion, it is suggested … that the fiscal policy should take into account the state of governance where mining is being conducted, the extent of …
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from mining activities, focusing on wages, firm profitability, and job creation. Utilizing exogenous changes in … minerals and metals being extracted, we find that, in the short term, a general contraction in the mining sector reduces the … evidence that a negative shock to the mining sector through vertical integration will have negative productivity impacts on the …
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Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite...
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and developed countries initially need to establish regional economic infrastructure, the next concern should be given to … the social infrastructure. In local regions, the presence of sufficient social infrastructure may hold the number of … given to the roles played by public sector for coordinating wider-regional sharing of the social infrastructure element. The …
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Industrial policy is back. Advocates for industrial policy argue that the important question is not whether such policies should be applied at all, but how to design and implement them. For the extractive industries this development poses a challenge. First, there is the argument that host...
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Domestic laws are the ideal legal instrument to regulate the mining sector’s contribution to climate change mitigation … and adaptation. Even so, as a stop-gap-measure, governments may consider updating model mining development agreements … how they can use, investor–state mining contracts to advance climate goals. We synthesize our findings and recommendations …
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