Book: Extractive Industries

Open access | New initiatives recognize that resource wealth can provide a means, when properly used, for poorer nations to decisively break with poverty by diversifying economies and funding development spending.
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Journal Special Issue: Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change

Open access | This journal special issue offers conceptual, theoretical, and empirical reasons for treating horizontal inequality as an outcome and challenging assumptions of fixity.
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Policy Brief: Employment expectations of university students in Mozambique

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Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

The central goal of the project is to support inclusive growth, growth that substantially improves the living standards of the Mozambican population.
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Journal Article: Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after Apartheid

Open access | This article investigates progress in reducing the high level of racial stratification of occupations after apartheid in South Africa.
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Local content law and practice: The case of the oil and gas industry in Ghana

Local content and local participation policy and legislation have come to stay in Ghana’s oil and gas industry...

Local content Law Oil and gas
Research Brief
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 Extractives and economic diversification in Mozambique: Will local content do the trick? Natural resource management Extractive industries Economic diversification
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Optimal local content for extractive industries: How can policies best create benefits for Tanzania?

Tanzania is rich with natural resources, which have significant potential to contribute to the country’s economic development...

Extractive industries Local content Mining
Book Chapter
Local content, supply chains, and shared infrastructure

From the book: Extractive Industries

extractives industry Local content Industrial policy
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Natural resources, structural change, and industrial development: Local content in Zambia—a faltering experience?

This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia’s mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic diversification...

Industrialization Local content Economic linkages
Working Paper
What are the prospects for Mozambique to diversify its economy on the back of ‘local content’?

In recent years, Mozambique has made international headlines for the significant hydrocarbon deposits found offshore. These have increased the country’s extractive resource endowments, in addition to its mining and onshore natural gas sector...

Natural resource management Extractive industries Economic diversification
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Enhancing local content in Uganda’s oil and gas industry

This paper analyses policy options to promote local content in Uganda as it transitions into an oil-producing country...

Local content Oil and gas Tax administration data
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Local content, supply chains, and shared infrastructure

Local content policies in the context of extractive industries have attracted increased interest in recent years...

extractives industry Local content Industrial policy
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