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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 of land ...
mining, coal mining, environment, India, Meghalaya
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 are in ...
mining, community development, regulatory reform, corporate social, responsibility, foreign direct investment, Sierra Leone
Prospects for Tanzania's mining sector
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
The success of Tanzania's structural reform efforts will (inter alia) depend on its ability to generate foreign exchange incomes. Mineral exports seem ...
Africa: Tanzania
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 in selected ...
Mining, Tanzania
Local content in the Tanzanian mining sector
CMI Brief | Mar 2016
This brief examines the factors that have influenced local content in the Tanzanian mining sector, and some of the challenges and successes ...
Tanzania
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 on Ghana’s ...
Political economy, corruption, mining, Ghana, Ghana
Large-scale mining in protected areas made possible through corruption
U4 Brief | Jul 2015
Large-scale mining of minerals and metals are threatening protected areas, and corruption is often to blame. International donors must engage with governments, ...
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
Lessons from Zambia … for a more sustainable mining tax regime
Newspaper Op-Ed | May 2016
Lessons from Zambia … for a more sustainable mining tax regime Caleb Fundanga, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad
Tax, mining, Zambia
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 and the mining ...
Taxation, royalties, extractive industries, mining, royalty, lobbying, Zambia
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 and the mining ...
Mining, Taxation, Royalty, Zambia
Tax bargains in unlikely places: The politics of Zambian mining taxes
Journal Article | Apr 2017
In developed nations, issues of taxation rank high on the agendas of political parties. In Africa’s new democracies taxation does not figure as ...
Zambia
The political economy of river sand mining in South Asia
Project | Aug 2020 - Dec 2023
Sand is the world’s second most consumed resource after water. It is increasingly becoming scarce. The world is running out of sand as building booms ...
Nepal, India, Bangladesh
Lessons from Zambia - Recommendations for a more sustainable mining tax regime
Newspaper Op-Ed | May 2016
Lessons from Zambia - Recommendations for a more sustainable mining tax regime Caleb Fundanga, Odd-
Tax, mining, Zambia
Large-scale mining in protected areas made possible through corruption: Options for donors
U4 Brief | Jun 2015
Large-scale mining of minerals and metals are threatening protected areas, and corruption is often to blame. International donors must engage with governments, ...
Mining, natural resource management
Corruption and elite capture of mining community development funds in Ghana and Sierra Leone
Book Chapter | Jan 2017
Community development funds drawing from resource revenues are increasingly used to address issues of revenue distribution and local development in resource ...
Ghana, Sierra Leone, community mining funds, elite capture, Sierra Leone
Managing benefit streams from mining in Tanzania: Capacity building for local authorities.
Project | Nov 2006 - Feb 2007
Recent CMI studies of the management of benefit streams from the extractive industries in Tanzania and Mali (CMI reports 2006:4 and 2006:11) reveal that ...
Mining, CSR, Tanzania
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, particularly ...
Natural resources, Mining, Minerals, Corruption, Rural communities, Cash transfer schemes, natural resource management, Ghana
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 operations ...
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 case demonstrates ...
Local content, Mining, Petroleum, Tanzania