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Resources Matter. Ending Poverty while Protecting Nature

Open access book
Tony Addison, Alan R. Roe - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
The book discusses how the extractive industries can be leveraged to generate larger and more beneficial impacts in poorer economies and improve livelihoods at local and national levels. A central argument is that the so-called 'resource curse' - the potentially negative effect of resource booms on economies and societies - is not inevitable, as it is often said to be.
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Legitimising lithium mining: Global energy transition and green developmentalism in Jujuy, Argentina

European Review of Latin American an Caribbean Studies
Malte Dorn, Kristina Dietz - Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna

Bad Samaritans in foreign aid: Evidence from major mineral discoveries

Rabah Arezki, Youssouf Camara, Frederick van Der Ploeg et al. - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI)

In Serbia, the EU’s Green Deal is fuelling pollution and human rights abuses

Teun Dominicus - Transnational Institute TNI

A Deep-Sea Dilemma: An Analysis of EU Member States’ Positions on Deep-Sea Mining in International Waters

Seppe Dewulf - Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS - UGent)

Le potentiel minier de l’Afrique : Panorama, enjeux et défis

Philippe Bosse, Patrice Ebah, Julien Gourdon, Nicolas Hubert, Harouna Kinda, Hugo Lapeyronie, Thomas Lassourd, Émilie Normand - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)

The Impacts of Mining Industries on Land Tenure in Ghana: A Comprehensive Systematic Literature Review

Land
Bridget Adjei, Eric Paul Tudzi, Anthony Owusu-Ansah et al. - Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)

The new curse of critical minerals

Rabah Arezki Frederick Van Der Ploeg - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)

Miners’ endurance in informal gold mining: the extreme case of La Rinconada, Peru

Eugenia Robles Mengoa, Ana Luisa Sánchez - Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB)

Mining contract transparency improves local planning in Mali

Nouhoum Diakite - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Wooing foreign investors: Greenland should prepare for the next dispute

Rafael Cox Alomar & Ulrik Pram Gad - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Artisanal gold mining in Mali: making gold shine for the people of Gouandiaka

N. Diakite - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Towards improved formalisation of artisanal and small-scale mining in Peru

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, Anna Wilson - Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID)

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI): A mine of information to be exploited?

Yannick Boutergie, Neerbewendé Rachid Pafadnam - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)

Exploitation minière en Afrique: enjeux fiscaux, sociaux et environnementaux

Julien Gourdon Economiste, Harouna Kinda, Hugo Lapeyronie - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)

Critical Minerals for Energy Transition and Sustainable Development in Africa

Antoine Clair, Luc Jacolin, Paul Vertier - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)

Qauggas and diamonds: the possible relations between damond mining and species extinction

ASCL Working Paper
J.B. Gewald - African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL)

African countries lost control to foreign mining companies – the 3 steps that allowed this to happen

Ben Radley - Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath (CDS)

Artisanal Gold Mining Camps in the Butana (Eastern Sudan) as Migration Hubs

Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)

Mining and the Incidence of Malaria in Angola and Ghana

Stefanos Papalysandrou - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)

Study: Public health regulation in large-scale mining

Resources Policy,
Joschka J. Proksik , Fritz Brugger , Hermann M. Konkobo , Hyacinthe R. Zabré , Serge P. Diagbouga - ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)

Exploring the policy space for public health in large-scale mining in Burkina Faso: A Q-methodology study

Resources Policy
Joschka J. Proksik, Fritz Brugger, Hermann M. Konkobo,Hyacinthe R. Zabré, Serge P. Diagbouga - ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)

The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations

Global Environmental Change
Eleanor Fisher, Marjo de Theije, Carlos H.X. Araujo et al. - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)

Overlapping governmentalities and the cosmo-politics of Mongolian water- and miningscapes

Geoforum
Mirja Schoderer - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Driving change in the Democratic Republic of Congo: an initial mapping of participation in mineral regulation and responsible sourcing

Sarah Katz-Lavigne, Hadassah Arian, Raphaël Deberdt and Sara Geenen - Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB)

Implementation of local content regulation. The case study of a foreign-owned mining operation in Tanzania

Jambo Ramadhani, Emmanuel Maliti - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Mining and Community Development Agreements: a panacea for community justice in Uganda?

Kevin Bakulumpagi - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Unravelling Africa’s raw material footprints and their drivers

WIDER Working Paper 115/2022
Albert Kwame Osei-Owusu, Michael Danquah & Edgar Towa - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

The end of tax incentives in mining? Tax policy and mining foreign direct investment in Africa

African Development Review
Seydou Coulibaly and Abdramane Camara - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI)

“We are not allowed to speak”: Some thoughts about a consultation process around lithium mining in Northern Argentina

The Extractive Industries and Society
Melisa Escosteguya, Araceli Clavijo, Walter Fernando Diaz Paz, Marc Hufty, Lucas Seghezzo - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Mineralized Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Katherine V. Gough, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, Crispin Kinabo, Michael Clarke Shand, Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, Paul W.K. Yankson - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)

Going Against the Tide: Towards Binding Environmental Regulation of Mining in Chile

Johanna Järvelä & Lotta Aho - Copenhagen Business School, Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)

Boosting mineral revenues in Zambia

Policy options for a sustainable fiscal regime
Andrew Mwaba & Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Chinese companies in Arctic mining are gaming the master plan

But Western needs often drive Chinese involvement
Patrik Andersson, Per Kalvig & Ulrik Pram Gad - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
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