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Steps to limit the endemic corruption around junior mining companies
News | 4 Oct 2015
High environmental risks and questionable development outcomes characterise the mining industry. A myriad of small companies operate in competitive, high-risk, high-reward settings with weak institutions that fail to enforce regulations. Such conditions are highly conducive to corruption, violence, and environmental destruction.
Junior mining companies, Environmental impact assessments, Environmental governance, Corruption, Violence, Bribery, Natural Resources, Guatemala
Land tenure and mining in Tanzania.
Commissioned Report | Nov 2007
This study is commissioned by the World Bank as part of the bank's initiative to build capacity in governance and benefit streams management ...
Mining, Tanzania
Benefit Streams from Mining in Tanzania: Case Studies from Geita and Mererani
CMI Report | Jan 2006
Tanzania is a 'new' mining country, and foreign investment in the mining sector has caused controversies. Government revenues from mining increased ...
Mining industry, Gold mines, Natural resources management, Corporate social responsibility, Tanzania
Community Development Requirements in Mining Laws
Journal Article | Aug 2014
Since the mid-1980s, 32 countries around the world have adopted community development requirements into their mining laws, while nine countries ...
mining, community development, regulatory reform, corporate social , responsibility, foreign direct investment, Sierra Leone
Twenty Years After Ottawa: ‘Unpacking’ Mine Action in Peace Agreements
Journal Article | Apr 2019
Mine action is essential for long-term peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. Using new data, this paper explores the nexus between ...
landmines, mine action, peace agreements, Ottawa Convention, peace processes, treaties
Socio-economic Effects of Gold Mining in Mali. A Study of the Sadiola and Morila Mining Operations
CMI Report | Jan 2006
In the last decade Mali has experienced a gold boom. Today Mali is Africa's third largest producer of gold and has one of the world's most gold-dependent ...
Mining industry, gold mines, resource management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), Mali
The best way to tax natural resources
News | 24 Nov 2015
-A 'good' natural resource tax regime is one that does not undermine - or strangle - the development of the ordinary tax system, says CMI researcher Odd-Helge Fjeldstad. Different segments of the tax system 'interfere' with each other. If the most resourceful companies and individuals do not contribute with tax revenue due to tax avoidance and exemptions, this will affect the taxpaying behaviour of others.
Reclaiming the fields of war: Mainstreaming mine action in development
Report in External Series | Jan 2004
This study was commissioned by the UNDP Mine Action Team in response to increasing demands from mine-affected countries and donor governments ...
Land mines
Land Tenure and Mining in Tanzania
CMI Report | Apr 2008
Tanzania is a relatively new mining country, and mining has become a hotly debated issue in the country. There is a feeling among both local ...
Land tenure, Mining, Conflicts, Legal aspects, Tanzania
Mainstreaming Mine Action
Project | Jan - Jul 2004
The study #7; Demonstrates the socio-economic development impact of landmines as well as of mine action operations; #7;Assesses to what extent mine ...
Mine Action, Development, , Africa: Mozambique., Asia: Afghanistan., Europe: Croatia
Benefit streams from mining in Botswana, Namibia, Mali and Tanzania. Lessons from studies conducted in 2005
Commissioned Report | Nov 2007
The main objective of this brief report is to present the lessons learned and the main findings from six case studies of large scale mining ...
Mining, Botswana, Namibia, Mali, Tanzania
Resource nationalism and local content in Tanzania: Experiences from mining and consequences for the petroleum sector
Journal Article | Nov 2016
Highlights
Discontent with mining has contributed to calls for resource nationalism in Tanzania’s petroleum sector.
The Tanzanian ...
Local content, Mining, Petroleum, Tanzania
By the gun or by the bribe: Firm size, environmental governance and corruption among mining companies in Guatemala
U4 Issue | Sep 2015
(You can also read the most important points in this publication in our blog: Steps to limit the endemic corruption around junior ...
Junior mining companies, Environmental impact assessments, Environmental governance, Mergers and acquisitions, Violence, Bribery, natural resource management, Guatemala
Preventing corruption in community mineral beneficiation schemes
U4 Issue | Feb 2017
Abstract
This paper analyses patterns of corruption and corruption risks related to community mineral beneficiation schemes (CMBSs) that distribute ...
natural resource management
Legal limits to tribal governance: coal mining in Meghalaya, India
CMI Brief | Mar 2017
Land in Meghalaya, India, was traditionally agricultural land, owned by the community. With increasing privatization and rising commercial value ...
mining, coal mining, environment, India, Meghalaya
Political economy of the mining sector in Ghana
Report in External Series | Aug 2011
With a focus on the institutional set-up and the political environment as central to understanding and rectifying the poor impact of mining ...
Political economy, corruption, mining, Ghana, Ghana
The rise and fall of the mining royalty regime in Zambia
Book Chapter | Nov 2017
Zambia has a long history of disputed changes of the mining tax regime with damaging effects on the working relations between the Government ...
Taxation, royalties, extractive industries, mining, royalty, lobbying, Zambia
Distributing mining wealth to communities in Ghana: Addressing problems of elite capture and political corruption
U4 Issue | May 2013
In the context of a mining boom in Africa, a critical consideration is how governments use increased mineral wealth to foster development, ...
Natural resources, Mining, Minerals, Corruption, Rural communities, Cash transfer schemes, natural resource management, Ghana
The rise and fall of the mining royalty regime in Zambia
CMI Brief | Jan 2016
Zambia has a long history of disputed changes of the mining tax regime with damaging effects on the working relations between the Government ...
Mining, Taxation, Royalty, Zambia
Transforming local relationships: Reintegration of combatants through mine action in Afghanistan
Book Chapter | Jan 2004
This is a case study on Afghanistan which concentrates on a specific mine action project that focused on the reintegration of former combatants ...
Asia: Afghanistan