Small-scale mining, poverty and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa: An overview

By G. Hilson. 2009

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Civil and Structural Engineering, 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): “Since the 1990s, the ‘poverty-driven’ character of ASM has been emphasized over and over again (Barry, 1996; Hilson, 2009: 2), arguing that people ‘branch out’ to mining activities in order to escape poverty.”
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…”
Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review (2014, background): “There were certainly indications early on of there being a range of motivations behind people’s participation in informal gold mining – drivers which have since been broadly grouped as pull factors or the aforementioned lure of quick wealth, and push factors or principally poverty or hardship (Hilso”
African Mining, Gender, and Local Employment (2014, background): “Inward migration can be spurred by natural resource and mining booms and there is evidence of the creation of mining cities (Lange, 2006 in Tanzania), urban-rural migration (around small-scale mines; Hilson, 2009) as well as workmigration (Corno and de Walque, 2012).”
De-agrarianization, re-agrarianization and local economic development: Re-orientating livelihoods in African artisanal mining communities (2010, background): “There are, however, competing narratives concerning the precise economic role that artisanal mining now plays in rural sub-Saharan Africa ( Hilson 2009 ), although both are couched in two ‘classic’ reasons for distress-push rural livelihood diversification and ‘are likely to have relevance even in t”