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Cost reductions as a response to the end of the commodity price boom
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by Alan Roe May 2017

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...

  • Commodity boom
  • Mining
  • Extractives
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Lower exploration spending – another response to the end of the commodity price boom
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by Alan Roe May 2017

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...

  • Commodity boom
  • Mining
  • Extractives
Blog
What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part I)
by UNU -WIDER, Isa Chiconela, Edson Mazive April 2019

At the beginning of this decade, large offshore natural gas fields were discovered in north-east Mozambique. Investment is now flowing into the...

  • Extractives
  • Mozambique
  • Revenues
Blog
What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part II)
by UNU -WIDER, Gimelgo Xirinda, Esmeralda Napaua April 2019

At the beginning of this decade, large offshore natural gas fields were discovered in north-east Mozambique. Investment is now flowing into the...

  • Extractives
  • Mozambique
  • Revenues
Blog
What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part III)
by UNU -WIDER, Ivandra Vieira, Gerson Baza, Silvana Mondlane April 2019

At the beginning of this decade, large offshore natural gas fields were discovered in north-east Mozambique. Investment is now flowing into the...

  • Extractives
  • Mozambique
  • Revenues
Blog
Gas revenues will come and go in Mozambique – now is the time to think how to use them wisely
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by Ricardo Santos January 2019

Mozambique is still an agriculture-based economy. Huge offshore gas fields have been discovered in the country and plans for gas projects are in the...

  • Inclusive growth
  • Extractives
  • Mozambique
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Uganda’s oil

We study Uganda’s journey to become a petroleum producer and provide estimates regarding the size and timing of the oil revenues to be expected. At an average US$38 per capita per year over a 33-year period, oil revenue by itself will not be...

  • Extractives
  • Extractive industries
  • Structural change
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Climate change and the extractives sector

The 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...

  • Extractives
  • Oil
  • Natural gas
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Choices for spending government revenue

This 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. It assesses how much of an impact can be made on the funding gaps for...

  • Extractives
  • Education
  • Revenue
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Extractive revenues and government spending

Part of Book Extractive Industries

  • Extractives
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Regulatory structures and challenges to developmental extractives

Part of Book Extractive Industries

  • Development
  • Extractives
  • Regulatory
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Oil and gas companies and the management of social and environmental impacts and issues

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  • Social performance
  • Social investment
  • Corporate social responsibility
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Framework

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  • Economic impact
  • Multiplier effects
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Choices for spending government revenue

Part of Book Extractive Industries

  • Extractives
  • Education
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Political economy and governance

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  • Natural resources
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  • Political economy
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Community development planning
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  • Capacity building
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