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Extractive Industries: Taxation and Revenues
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Mining for change: How can natural resources support inclusive growth in AfricaFor a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks. There is an extensive literature linking natural resource dependence to poor economic performance...
Mining Extractive industries Industrial policyWorking Paper
Natural resources, institutions, and economic transformation in MozambiqueIn the light of Mozambique’s natural resources boom—especially its large-scale investments in mining, oil, and gas—this paper analyses the prospects for the extractive industries to contribute to economic transformation from an inst...
Economic transformation Extractive industries InstitutionsWorking Paper
The potential of extractive industries as anchor investments for broader regional developmentThe paper reviews what we know about the possibilities of designing and implementing policy measures that raise the contribution of the extractive industries’ production/consumption links to economic growth and wellbeing, and reviews how polici...
Downstream processing Extractive industries infrastrucutureWorking Paper
Revenue forecasting in the mining industries: A data-driven approachRobust forecasting of mining sector revenues is key to effective budgeting (and broader fiscal management) in many resource-rich countries...
corporate income tax Extractive industries mineral taxBook Chapter
Uganda’s oil: How much, when, and how will it be governed?From the book: Mining for Change
Extractives Extractive industries structural changeBook Chapter
Local content: Are there benefits for Tanzania?From the book: Mining for Change
Extractive industries Local content MiningBook Chapter
Local content and the prospects for economic diversification in MozambiqueFrom the book: Mining for Change
Natural resource management Extractive industries Economic diversificationBook Chapter
Mozambique—bust before boom: Reflections on investment surges and new gasFrom the book: Mining for Change
Economic diversification Economic transformation Extractive industriesBook Chapter
Rowing against the current: Economic diversification in AfricaExtractive industries Natural resources diversification
Book
Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in AfricaFor a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks...
Mining Industrial policy Extractive industriesIn the media
UNU-WIDER book informs Forbes article on the future of extractives
Extractive industries Extractives Policy seminar
Tony Addison presents at a high-level policy dialogue in Maputo
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Public Forum on extractive industry and developmentThe Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme will host a public forum on 26 March 2019 on the topic of Extractive Industry and Development. The Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER Tony Addison will give a presentation based on a major...
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Can natural resources jump-start industrialization?
At the end of last year, I filmed a lecture that will be part of a massive open online course (MOOC) on industrialization in Africa...
Industrialization structural change Employment and IndustryPresentation
Tony Addison gives a presentation on extractives at the OECD Development Centre seminarChief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, Tony Addison , is giving a presentation on 14 December at the OECD Development Centre’s seminar series Development in Transition. The seminar focuses on natural resources and sustainable...