Mining and poverty reduction: Transforming rhetoric into reality

By Scott Pegg. 2006

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Development, Economics and Econometrics

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Environmental Impacts of Sand Exploitation. Analysis of Sand Market (2017, background): “Exploiting sand from different sources has both multiple benefits (poverty reduction [37,38], economic growth [39], new habitats for plants and animals [20], new water reservoirs are created [20,40], etc.”
“GOOD GOVERNANCE” AND THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (2008, background): “On 16 October 2007, it was announced that the governments of nine countries, which included seven from sub-Saharan Africa (Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Principe and Sierra Leone) were asked to supply additional information by the ”
Chinese Participation in Ghana's Informal Gold Mining Economy: Drivers, Implications and Clarifications (2014, background): “The scale of this lending was enormous, and the dialogue, likely impenetrable: sub-Saharan Africa had attracted 162 of the 288 packages awarded by the Bank and the International Monetary Fund before 1981 and by the 1990s, and 37 of the region’s countries had implemented a combined 162 adjustment pro”
Corporate Innovation and Sustainable Community Development in Developing Countries (2012, background): “…as captured in Figure 1, the goal of sustainable community development becomes (a) improved socioeconomic and cultural conditions of host communities, (b) capacity building and self-help in host communities, and (c) community empowerment (see Idemudia, 2007b; Pegg, 2006; World Bank, 2001).”
Contention and Ambiguity: Mining and the Possibilities of Development (2008, unknown): “Bank, 2004) was also forced by international protest targeted at the negative consequences of World Bank support to mining and hydrocarbons (Pegg, 2006).”
Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Alleviating Poverty in Mining Communities? Experiences from Ghana (2009, unknown): “Email: G.M.Hilson@reading.ac.uk ISSN 0022-0388 Print/1743-9140 Online/09/020172-25 ª 2009 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/00220380802553057 (Aryee, 2001; Bury, 2004; Ruffini, 2006).”