This book examines existing mineral fiscal policies covering income taxation, royalties, free carried and participative (community and government) interests and also highlights the impacts of these policies on the feasibility of mineral projects as well as on revenue and other benefits to the...

Economic diversification : new thinking -- Industrial diversification and the evolving position of natural resources in the Canadian economy -- Diversification of the saudi economy : challenges and prospects -- Diversification in latin american oil exporters : was no intervention a better policy...

"The challenges associated with the struggles for attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals and objectives are as diverse and complex as the variety of human societies, national conditions and natural ecosystems worldwide. Despite decades of economic growth and technological advances, our...

Economists have had much to say about the impact of economic policies on growth, but little on their distributional consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the central objective thus called for new tools to...