A study of the harmonisation of national mining policies conducted by the United Nations Economic Council for Africa (UNECA) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) in 2009 concluded that “As large-scale mining activities increase, Malawi should benefit from a SADC-wide approach to...

"As the world moves towards decarbonization and the race for clean energy technologies accelerates, states in the global south are increasingly called upon to supply critical minerals to fuel the transition. Business of the State details how mineral states might design effective growth...

Chapter 1: Mining, Resources, and Development -- Chapter 2: Economics of Mining and Accumulation of resources -- Chapter 3: Government for Mining Industries! Legislative to Institutional support -- Chapter 4: How Government Facilitates Private Mining Capital: The story of POSCO and JSW in Odisha...

With the support of Oxfam, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment reviewed select provisions in the Mines and Minerals Act 2009 and corresponding policy statements from the Minerals Policy 2018 to provide recommendations for how to best align the anticipated new mining law with...

The focus of this study is rent in the diamond industry. Based on extensive datasets and a discussion of all relevant costs, we present resource rent statistics from the diamond industry in key producer countries in emerging economies such as Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo,...

Mining dominates the Mongolian economy, already accounting for some 80 percent of exports and contributing a quarter of gross domestic product (GDP). In July 2020, the newly elected government reaffirmed its commitment to bring into production more of Mongolia's mineral deposits and to process...

"This book examines state-business relations in semi-peripheral South Africa and peripheral Zimbabwe after each country's transition to majority rule. Baran examines the implementation of liberalisation and indigenisation policies by the majority governments of South Africa and Zimbabwe used to...

Natural resource extraction, once promoted by international lenders and governing elites as a promising development strategy, is beginning to hit a wall. After decades of landscape gutting and community resistance, mine developers and their allies are facing new challenges. The outcomes of the...

Diese Veröffentlichung stellt eine von sechs Analysen sektorenübergreifender Herausforderungen für Wasser-Governance dar, die als Teil des STEER-Forschungsprojekts durchgeführt wurden und deren Resultate in separaten Analysen und Stellungnahmen vorliegen. Der Abbau von Mineralien und...

"Iron Will lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India. Markus Kröger addresses resistance strategies to extractivism and tracks their success, or lack thereof,...

Este documento fue elaborado para apoyar las políticas de sustentabilidad del Plan Nacional de Relaves liderado por el Ministerio de Minería del Gobierno de Chile (2019), que busca, entre otras cosas, disminuir y minimizar el impacto de tranques y depósitos de relaves en situación de...

The clock is ticking and time is running short for us to have a realistic chance to get climate change under control and prevent it becoming irreversible and selfsustaining. Phasing out coal is widely seen as a 'low hanging fruit' of climate policy commitments in the move towards a net zero...

The clock is ticking and time is running short for us to have a realistic chance to get climate change under control and prevent it becoming irreversible and selfsustaining. Phasing out coal is widely seen as a 'low hanging fruit' of climate policy commitments in the move towards a net zero...

Mining plays a crucial role in Brazil’s economy. Nonetheless, the efforts and resources devoted to regulatory quality in the sector, including the enforcement of rules, have not always been commensurate. This report identifies the gaps, barriers, implementation flaws and inefficiencies in the...

Rassmotreny strany Centralʹnoj Azii, ich vnutrennee ustrojstvo, puti ėkonomičeskoj integracii v mirovuju ėkonomiku, a takže situacija v gornodobyvajuščem sektore kak osnove uspešnoj modeli razvitija gosudarstva v celom. Pokazany masštaby dobyči poleznych iskopaemych, predstavleny...

"This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. As ex-Soviet states, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan share history, culture and transitions to democracy. Most importantly, both are mineral-rich countries on China's frontier and epi-centres of resource...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART I: Mining Laws and Policies in Selected African Countries -- Chapter 2: Democratic Republic of Congo -- Chapter 3: Ghana -- Chapter 4: Mozambique -- Chapter 5: South Africa I -- Chapter 6: South Africa II -- Chapter 7: South Africa III -- PART II: Regional...

We analyze how information disclosure policy affects investment efficiency in non-cooperative settings with information externalities. In a two-firm, two-period model, we characterize equilibrium behavior under policies which disclose whether investment returns exceed a predefined level. These...

Chapter 1. Mining Sector Contracting in Mongolia -- Chapter 2. Foreign Direct Investment in Mongolia: Impact and Determinants -- Chapter 3. Mining Development Strategy -- Chapter 4: Budget Revenue Management -- Chapter 5. Impact of Mining on Local Livelihood and Social Licensing in Mongolia.

"Mining and hydrocarbon production in Latin America is high-stakes for extractive firms, communities in resource-rich zones, and states. Amid global commodity price increases and liberal economic policies, the sectors have expanded dramatically in recent decades. This surge has made private...

In 2018, the Indian government produced a draft mineral policy for non-fuel minerals (DMP). By analysing some interesting features of the policy concerning the grant of mining rights, the use of mineral receipts and the participation of local communities in land use decision making, this piece...

Sweden’s northern region, Upper Norrland, is one of the most important mining regions in Europe and has the potential to become a global leader in environmentally sustainable mining. With the largest land surface and the lowest population density in Sweden, Upper Norrland contains two sub...

"While much of the current research on the extractive industries and their socio-environmental impacts is region specific, Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience: International Perspectives critically explores the current state of the extractive industries sector from a uniquely global...

"What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into “property,” while...

"This cutting-edge book presents a broad picture of global capitalism and extractivism in contemporary Latin America. Leading scholars examine the cultural patterns involving gender, ethnicity, and class that lie behind protests in opposition to extractivist projects and the contrast in...