The Extractive Industries and Society 

TL;DR: In this paper, a review reflects critically on why, despite its growing economic importance, artisanal and small-scale (ASM) occupies such a peripheral position on the economic development agenda of sub-Saharan Africa.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and discuss factors affecting the likelihood of resistance to mining projects by local communities and identify the needs for local consent processes, and help inform the creation of no-go areas for mining projects to the mutual benefit of companies, communities, and government authorities otherwise affected by socio-environmental impacts and costly deadlocks.

TL;DR: The mining sector is not immune to the impacts of Covid-19, and the crisis has the potential to have severe consequences in the short, medium and long-term for the industry.

TL;DR: One of the main features of contemporary development politics in Latin America is the prominent role of the state as discussed by the authors, which is especially pronounced in the countries that are part of the "turn to the left" which have at the same time played host to alternative development approaches.

TL;DR: The authors survey fifty-two empirical studies on relationships between extractive industries and poverty, addressing both poverty impacts and possible linkage mechanisms, and find industrial mining to be more frequently associated with poverty exacerbation, and artisanal mining with poverty reduction.