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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part III)
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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...
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What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part I)
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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’
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UNU-WIDER experts in key role in global roundtable process on extractives
Over the past eight months, various heads of state, ministers, and other stakeholders from around the world have participated in a dialogue to discuss the pressing issues and the future of the extractives sector. UNU-WIDER researchers Tony Addison and Alan Roe have played a key role in the process, which culminated in a global roundtable led by the UN Secretary-General on 25 May 2021.