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,...

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of mining in the context of proof-of-work-based consensus mechanisms, which represent the backbone for Bitcoin and many other crypto assets. We first discuss miners’ incentives, the critical role of mining for security, and key design aspects such...

Through a detailed case study of gold mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 'Disrupted Development in the Congo' reveals the fragile foundations on which the African Mining Consensus rests. It documents how foreign mining corporations in the Congo have been prone to mismanagement and...

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...

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.

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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,...

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...

"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...

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...

"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...

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...

"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...

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: 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...

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...