mineral policy with retribalisation? : mining and politics of difference in rural South Africa / Sonwabile Mnwana -- The local … Engel and Elíso Macamo -- Africa's re-enchantment with big infrastructure : white elephants dancing in virtuous circles …? / Paul Nugent -- Port geographies : Africa's infrastructure boom and the reconfiguration of power and authority / Jana Hönke …

The 2009 Africa Mining Vision (AMV) provides guidance for the industrialization of African countries by leveraging … their mining sector. However, the global context has changed since its adoption. As a result, it does not include guidance … policy for Africa, including through the increased extraction of minerals needed in clean energy application and the greening …

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 …

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 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 …

exogenous variation, the paper shows that over 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price boom … China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local …