Blog
Cost reductions as a response to the end of the commodity price boom
by
Alan R. 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...
Blog
Lower exploration spending – another response to the end of the commodity price boom
by
Alan R. 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...
Blog
Gas revenues will come and go in Mozambique – now is the time to think how to use them wisely
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...
Blog
Ukraine: War, energy, and net zero
by
Alan R. Roe
May 2022
Just over seven months ago the United Nations convened its 26th Climate Change Conference (COP-26) in Glasgow, with the world nervously emerging from...
Blog
Is marine mining a commercial viability for developing countries?
by
Magnus Ericsson, Anton Löf, Olof Löf
March 2023
The green energy transition is projected to cause an increase in metal demand. Will this demand lead to the opening of deep-seabed mining? As of now...
Blog
What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part III)
by
UNU-WIDER,
Ivandra Vieira, Gerson Paris 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...
News
Tony Addison speaks on extractives industries and development during Mozambican MPs’ visit to Finnish parliament
UNU-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. Addison spoke to the...
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...
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...
Blog
Prospects for a Tanzanian transformation
by
James Stewart
December 2016
Researchers, policy makers, and representatives of international institutions recently gathered in Dar es Salaam to discuss prospects for a...
Presentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 2nd UN Roundtable on Extractives
On 9 December, 2020, Tony Addison and Alan Roe, both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled "Extractive industries and sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda in...
Wed, 9 December 2020
Online,
Chile
Past event
Policy seminar
Tony Addison presents at a high-level policy dialogue in Maputo
Wed, 27 March 2019
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Thu, 28 March 2019
The Bank of Mozambique ,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER researchers present at a conference of IMD in Maputo
Mon, 26 November 2018
Southern Sun Hotel,
Maputo,
Mozambique
Past event
Presentation
Tony Addison gives a presentation on extractives at the OECD Development Centre seminar
Chief 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 development...
Fri, 14 December 2018
OECD,
Paris,
France
Past event
News
Press release - Professor Kunal Sen starts as the director of UNU-WIDER
‘Economic transformation needs to be accompanied by political and social transformations if we are to see drastic increases in human wellbeing’