Search Results - subject:"mining activities"

Mining activities and housing price nexus: evidence from South Africa

Akinsomi, Omokolade; Bangura, Mustapha; Yacim, Joseph - In: International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 17 (2024) 6, pp. 1351-1367

Africa. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of mining activities on house prices. This intends to understand the … swiftly. Design/methodology/approach This study investigated the effect of mining activities on house prices in South Africa …, we found that changes in mining activities, as measured by the contribution of this sector to gross domestic product …

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Mining activities and local economic development : evidence from Indonesian provinces

Wiwoho, Jamal; Trinugroho, Irwan; Evan Lau - In: International journal of trade and global markets 16 (2022) 4, pp. 349-358

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Dominican Republic Environmental and Social Safeguards Issues Paper: Upstreaming Environmental and Social Risk Management

Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

The purpose of this technical note is to identify key environment and safeguard-related risks and opportunities that should be taken into account in the new Country Strategy for the Dominican Republic (DR) as required by the IDB's Environment and Safeguard Policy approved in January 2006....

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Dominican Republic Environmental and Social Safeguards Issues Paper: Upstreaming Environmental and Social Risk Management

Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

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Solomon Islands; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

This paper analyzes Solomon Islandsâ€™ ongoing reforms concerning of the mineral taxation regime and the fiscal impact of mineral resources. The analysis shows that mineral revenue could be substantial, provided that mineral prices remain strong in the medium term. Enforcing the tax...

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Setting the limits to extraction : a biophysical approach to mining activities

Vela-Almeida, Diana; Brooks, Grace; Kosoy, Nicolas - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 119 (2015), pp. 189-196

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Beach dynamics and oscillations of shoreline position in recent years at Miramar Beach, Goa, India: a study from a GPR survey

Loveson, V.; Gujar, A.; Iyer, Sridhar; Udayaganesan, P.; … - In: Natural Hazards 73 (2014) 3, pp. 2089-2106

mining activities upstream. Superimposed on this overall regressive trend is a series of deposition and erosion cycles … shoreline growth has been rapid because of the heavy sediment influx from the Mandovi River caused by increased mining … activities (since the 1950s) in upstream areas. Since the 1950s, the shoreline has prograded rapidly, building a beach from ~40 …

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Democratic Republic of the Congo; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix investigates the sources of growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and evaluates the relative importance of productivity growth and factor accumulation. The analysis is extended to the key sectors of the economy: agriculture,...

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Diamond Smuggling and Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Vocke, Matthias; Oomes, Nienke - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper provides an overview of diamond mining in sub-Saharan African countries, and explores the reasons for substantial differences in their tax rates and fiscal revenues from the sector, which mainly arise from differences in the incentives for smuggling. In a theoretical model, we show...

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Alternative Forms of Mineral Taxation, Market Failure and the Environment

Muzondo, Timothy R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

This paper examines the environmental effects of mineral taxes in a framework that recognizes the importance of rates and cumulative externalities and proposes an appropriate corrective tax. It concludes that mineral resources taxation should combine neutral taxes with a dynamic Pigovian type...

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