"Hot money" and daring consumption in a northern Malagasy sapphire-mining town

By Andrew D. Walsh. 2003

130 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anthropology, Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b874f4ddc8713a99f24148c3c78c7b6b784e594e

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In Building and Construction

1. David Botchie
2. George Ofosu
3. A. Dittmann
4. David Sarpong

In Economics and Econometrics

1. David Botchie
2. George Ofosu
3. A. Dittmann
4. David Sarpong

Citations in the corpus

• Socio-economic and environmental implications of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) on agriculture and livelihoods (2020, background): “Walsh (2003) refers to transient high earnings as “hot money” that fuels ‘daring consumption’ in the mining towns in Madagascar, although Mkodzongi and Spiegel (2019) provide a contrasting perspective with evidence that ASM-generated funds are employed for more productive purposes.”