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Those fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a 'fragility trap.' Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual political and economic limbo that can last for years and...
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individuals in Yemen, as an illustration of the human mobility impacts of climate change-related shocks in a complex emergency … setting. Using the first systematic household survey conducted in southern Yemen since the beginning of the ongoing conflict …
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This study examines the effects of mining productivity shocks on the formal-informal duality in manufacturing and … informality along both margins across sectors following mining shocks are heterogeneous. We also find that the lack of duality … between informal and formal firms across the development phases of mining is driven by increasing heterogeneity in …
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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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This paper analyses the roles that states, civil society, and international actors can play in tackling the weak governance that sometimes leads to resources being used for private rather than public benefit. It discusses the corruption that bedevils licensing and commodities trading; and oil...
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This paper argues for a change in government attitudes to their extractive industries: as enclaves useful primarily as revenue sources. This is too narrow a perspective: it fails to recognize the broader economic linkages that are invariably possible. Achieving greater economic impact requires...
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extractive industries under the sub-headings of: poverty reduction and nature; mining and environmental risk; demand and supply …
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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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While market mechanisms and private initiatives can deliver much for development, public action is also necessary to: maximize the economic benefits of the extractive industries; manage potentially large capital and revenues flows; minimize adverse environmental and social impacts; and steer the...
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contribution of non-fuel minerals mining to low- and middle-income economies. Using the detailed data available for the minerals … sector, an analysis is carried out of the current situation for 2014, and of trends in mining's contribution to economic … development for the years 1996-2014. The contribution of minerals and mining to gross domestic product and exports reached a …
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