Land in Meghalaya, India, was traditionally agricultural land, owned by the community. With increasing privatization and rising commercial value of land ...

Since the mid-1980s, 32 countries around the world have adopted community development requirements into their mining laws, while nine countries are in ...

The success of Tanzania's structural reform efforts will (inter alia) depend on its ability to generate foreign exchange incomes. Mineral exports seem ...

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 ...

This brief examines the factors that have influenced local content in the Tanzanian mining sector, and some of the challenges and successes ...

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 ...

Large-scale mining of minerals and metals are threatening protected areas, and corruption is often to blame. International donors must engage with governments, ...

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.

Lessons from Zambia … for a more sustainable mining tax regime Caleb Fundanga, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad

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 ...

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 ...

In developed nations, issues of taxation rank high on the agendas of political parties. In Africa’s new democracies taxation does not figure as ...

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 ...

Lessons from Zambia - Recommendations for a more sustainable mining tax regime Caleb Fundanga, Odd-

Large-scale mining of minerals and metals are threatening protected areas, and corruption is often to blame. International donors must engage with governments, ...

Community development funds drawing from resource revenues are increasingly used to address issues of revenue distribution and local development in resource ...

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 ...

In the context of a mining boom in Africa, a critical consideration is how governments use increased mineral wealth to foster development, particularly ...

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 ...

Highlights Discontent with mining has contributed to calls for resource nationalism in Tanzania’s petroleum sector. The Tanzanian case demonstrates ...