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Mining and poverty reduction: Transforming rhetoric into reality
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In this article, the authors evaluate the contribution that mining has made to poverty reduction, and assesses the prospects for better performance in the future, concluding that mining can positively contribute toward poverty alleviation, but only if a variety of demanding preconditions are met.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2006-01-01. It has received 256 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Culture of poverty & Basic needs.read more
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Contention and Ambiguity: Mining and the Possibilities of Development
Anthony Bebbington,Leonith Hinojosa,Denise Humphreys Bebbington,Maria Luisa Burneo,Ximena Warnaars +4 more
TL;DR: The authors review evidence regarding debates on the resource curse and the possibility of an extraction-led pathway to development, and describe different types of resistance and social mobilization that have greeted mineral expansion at a range of geographical scales, and consider how far these protests have changed the relationships between mining and political economic change.
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Strained relations: A critical analysis of the mining conflict in Prestea, Ghana
TL;DR: The authors examines the dynamics of the ongoing conflict in Prestea, Ghana, where indigenous galamsey mining groups are operating illegally on a concession awarded to Bogoso Gold Limited (BGL), property of the Canadian-listed multinational Gold Star Resources.
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Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana: A perspective from the grassroots
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that artisanal mining communities are somewhat bound to their operations, and explain why formalization, alternative livelihood projects and military intervention have proved ineffective to tackle illegal mining.
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Oil Extraction and Poverty Reduction in the Niger Delta: A Critical Examination of Partnership Initiatives
TL;DR: In this article, the strengths and weaknesses of the different community development partnership (CDPs) initiatives employed by Shell, Exxon Mobil and Total to contribute to poverty reduction within their host communities in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
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Dimensions of environmental justice in anti-gold mining movements in Latin America
Leire Urkidi,Mariana Walter +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine two Latin American gold mining conflicts, one in the city of Esquel (Patagonia in Argentina) and the other in Pascua-Lama (Chilean border with Argentina).
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Greed and grievance in civil war
Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99 and found that economic viability appears to be the predominant systematic explanation of rebellion, while atypically severe grievances such as high inequality, a lack of political rights, or ethnic and religious divisions in society.
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Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth
TL;DR: The authors showed that countries with a high ratio of natural resource exports to GDP tended to have low growth rates during the subsequent period 1971-89, even after controlling for variables found to be important for economic growth, such as initial per capita income, trade policy, government efficiency, investment rates, and other variables.
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Does Oil Hinder Democracy
TL;DR: The authors examined three aspects of this "oil impedes democracy" claim and found that oil exports are strongly associated with authoritarian rule, and that other types of mineral exports have a similar antidemocratic effect, while other commodity exports do not.
World development report 2000/2001 : attacking poverty
Ravi Kanbur,Christina Malmberg Calvo,Monica Das Gupta,Christiaan Grootaert,Victoria Kwakwa,Nora Lustig +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the dimensions of poverty and how to create a better world, free of poverty, and explore the nature, and evolution of poverty to present a framework for action.
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Natural resources, education, and economic development
TL;DR: The authors found that economic growth has varied inversely with the share of natural capital in national wealth across countries, and that natural capital appears to crowd out human capital, thereby slowing down the pace of economic development.