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Framework: The channels for indirect impactsFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Extractives economic impact multiplier effectsBook Chapter
Oil and gas companies and the management of social and environmental impacts and issues: The evolution of the industry's approachFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Social performance Social investment Corporate social responsibilityBook Chapter
Regulatory structures and challenges to developmental extractives: Some practical observations from GhanaFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Development Extractives RegulatoryBook Chapter
Extractive revenues and government spending: Short- versus long-term considerationsFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Extractives RevenuesBook Chapter
Political economy and governanceFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Natural resources Extractives Political economyWorking Paper
Climate change and the extractives sectorThe extractives industries must adjust their operations to shifting patterns of demand for oil, natural gas, and coal together with metals and minerals – as policies and new technologies encourage progress along low-carbon pathways in energy, t...
Extractives Oil Natural gasNews
Tony Addison speaks on extractives industries and development during Mozambican MPs’ visit to Finnish parliamentUNU-WIDER Chief Economist-Deputy Director, Tony Addison , presented on the extractives industries and development during the exchange visit of the 5th Commission of the Parliament of Mozambique to Finland on 14 November 2017. Tony Addison presenting...
Extractives MozambiqueWorking Paper
Regulatory structures and challenges to developmental extractives: Some practical observations from GhanaAt the heart of an effective extractive resource-based economic transformation and development is an effective regulatory framework that guides the promotion of investments into the sector, the procedure for responsible extraction, and the management...
Development Extractives RegulatoryWorking Paper
Choices for spending government revenue: New African oil, gas, and mining economiesThis paper examines a broad range of opportunities for addressing the pressing human development needs of low-income countries by using new oil, gas, and mineral discoveries...
Extractives Education FrameworkBlog
Lower exploration spending – another response to the end of the commodity price boom
My previous blog, which you can read here , commented on the manner in which mining companies had been able to respond to the recent decline in metals prices by significantly reducing their costs of production...
Commodity boom Mining ExtractivesBlog
Cost reductions as a response to the end of the commodity price boom The recent publication of the 3rd edition of ICMM’s The Role of Mining in National Economies (hereafter RoMiNE3) provides us with the welcome biennial review of the global situation as it affects the large mining and metals industry...
Commodity boom Mining ExtractivesWorking Paper
Framework: The channels for indirect impactsThis paper discusses the channels of impact of an extractives activity on an economy by presenting a brief description supported by graphics of the different routes through which the direct economic and social impacts of these activities might be enh...
Extractives economic impact multiplier effectsWorking Paper
Extractive revenues and government spending: Short- versus long-term considerationsThe prescription of optimally managing natural resource revenue windfalls by smoothing consumption across generations using an intergenerational sovereign wealth fund that only invests in foreign assets is not appropriate for resource-rich developing...
Extractives RevenuesResearch Brief
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Political economy and governanceThis paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda...
Natural resources Extractives Political economyWorking Paper
Oil and gas companies and the management of social and environmental impacts and issues: The evolution of the industry’s approachThis paper provides an overview of social and environmental management practices in the oil and gas industry...
Social performance Social investment Corporate social responsibility