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effects, increased household investments, and increased returns to education in mining districts are potential mechanisms …
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case study of Australia, a leading producer and exporter of minerals. After describing the mining sector in the context of …-fuel sector. The study finds that government support to the mining industry is relatively limited. Measures through which the … Australian federal government assists the mining industry tax concessions related to corporate expenditure on R&D and on …
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Canadian mining in Guatemala has been associated with violence and death. Opposition to an INCO mine in the El Estor … events in Guatemala to efforts in Canada to hold Canadian mining companies accountable.[Breaching Indigenous Law: Canadian … Mining in Guatemala" 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=1267902' http://ssrn.com/abstract=1267902]Parts of this article dealing with …
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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 …
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This paper investigates the economic impacts of the mining sector on household expenditures. Employing the difference …-in-differences model and the Mongolia Household Socio-Economic Survey data from 2008 to 2016, I find that the mining activities benefited … local residents. Specifically, mining activities increase household expenditures on food, health, and electricity …
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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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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 long term without changing the investment behaviour of the mining companies and the long-term viability of the … by the World Bank to calculate mineral rents for mining industries other than the diamond industry. Rent calculated as …
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