How have reforms fuelled the expansion of artisanal mining? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

By Sadia Mohammed Banchirigah. 2006

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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A dangerous bet: The challenges of formalizing artisanal mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2012, background): “But many case-studies have demonstrated that in practice, the costs of such formalization policies in ASM have mostly outweighed the benefits (Banchirigah, 2006 and 2008; Clausen et al, 2011; Hilson and Potter, 2003 and 2005; Lahiri-Dutt, 2004; Siegel and Veiga, 2009).”
The Economic Logic of Persistent Informality: Artisanal and Small‐Scale Mining in the Southern Philippines (2015, background): “…has emerged that attributes ASM expansion to a pervasive subsistence crisis, caused by interrelated processes of structural adjustment, de-agrarianization (e.g. Banchirigah, 2007; Hilson, 2010; Hilson and Garforth, 2012), and in some cases even armed conflict (Hilson and Van Bockstael, 2011).”
Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Alleviating Poverty in Mining Communities? Experiences from Ghana (2009, background): “Banchirigah (2006) reinforces this claim, arguing that throughout sub-Saharan Africa, ASM has proved to be an indispensable source of income for those made redundant under reform, providing scores of people from the public sector and large-scale mining industry with jobs.”
Socio-economic and environmental implications of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) on agriculture and livelihoods (2020, background): “…been offered, inter alia: its potential to generate extensive distributional benefits (Banchirigah, 2008); failure of Structural Adjustment reforms (Banchirigah, 2006); ‘agricultural poverty’ (hardship induced by an over dependency on farming for survival) (Hilson and Garforth, 2012); and…”
Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review (2014, background): “Countless studies (e.g. Banchirigah 2006; Spiegel, 2009; Hilson 2010; Banchirigah and Hilson, 2010) have made this link, pointing to how the structural adjustment programs and widespread neo-liberal economic reforms implemented across the region in the late-1970s and early-1980s led to the…”
Chinese Participation in Ghana's Informal Gold Mining Economy: Drivers, Implications and Clarifications (2014, background): “But research since undertaken has shown that this is far from being the case (see Banchirigah 2006; Hilson 2009): that the region’s ASM communities are populated by an eclectic group of individuals, the vast majority of whom are driven to the sector because of hardship, not a desire to ‘get rich…”