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Reconfigured state-community relations in Africa’s extractive sectors: insights from post-liberalisation Tanzania
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In this article, the authors explore how the relationships between the state, investors and community actors in respect of mining and petroleum investments have developed as a result of the introduction of more detailed regulations and tougher fiscal and operational terms.About:
This article is published in The Extractive Industries and Society.The article was published on 2017-11-01. It has received 34 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Corporate governance.read more
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Between dependence and deprivation: The interlocking nature of land alienation in Tanzania
Jevgeniy Bluwstein,Jens Friis Lund,Jens Friis Lund,Kelly Askew,Howard Stein,Christine Noe,Rie Odgaard,Faustin Maganga,Linda Engström +8 more
TL;DR: Jevgeniy Bluwstein et al. as discussed by the authors presented a survey of food and resource economics at the Danish Institute of International Studies (DISE) and the Danish Food and Resource Economics (DFE) at the University of Copenhagen.
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New resource nationalism? Continuity and change in Tanzania’s extractive industries
TL;DR: Magufuli's attempt to exercise greater control over extractive industries culminated in the passing of three pieces of legislation in July 2017 as mentioned in this paper, which aim to regain the loss of the country's sovereignty over its resources, first and foremost by opening the renegotiation of existing contracts and removing firms' access to international arbitration.
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Extractive resource ownership and the subnational resource curse: Insights from Tanzania
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how national resource ownership politics influence the occurrence of a resource curse at the subnational level and show that weak local governance and national politics combine to make so-called national ownership contribute to the presence of a subnational resource curse.
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Mining-sector dynamics in an era of resurgent resource nationalism: Changing relations between large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania
Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen,Willison Mutagwaba,Jesper Bosse Jønsson,George C. Schoneveld,Thabit Jacob,Thabit Jacob,Maisory Chacha,Xiaoxue Weng,Maria G. Njau +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze three types of dynamics that have the potential to improve the lot of ASM in Tanzania, namely increased efforts to enforce ASM rights, stronger support programmes, and the emergence of medium-scale miners (MSM) linked to global value chains.
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Galvanising political support through resource nationalism: A case of Tanzania's 2017 extractive sector reforms
Japhace Poncian,Japhace Poncian +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined Tanzania's re-adoption of resource nationalism to understand how the government was able to institutionalise the reforms and found that Magufuli used resource nationalism as a political strategy to both secure a stronghold in party and national politics and legitimise his economic policy.
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Policy paradigms, social learning, and the state: the case of economic policymaking in Britain
TL;DR: The authors examined the role of ideas in policy making, based on the concept of policy paradigms, and found that a conventional model of social learning fit some types of changes in policy well but not the movement from Keynesian to monetarist modes of policymaking.
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Exploring the origins of ‘social license to operate’ in the mining sector: Perspectives from governance and sustainability theories
Jason Prno,D. Scott Slocombe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use governance and sustainability theories to conceptualize the origins of social license to operate (SLO) in the mining sector and describe some of the associated implications, but only a limited body of scholarship has developed around SLO.
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An overview of land use conflicts in mining communities
TL;DR: The authors examines the causes and impacts of land use conflicts between large-scale mines and community groups, and identifies a series of (land use) conflict resolution strategies for mine management, arguing that most of the unavoidable environmental problems that occur at sites are largely dismissed by locals, but that poor communications and highly preventable environmental accidents are the chief causes of intense land use disputes between mines and surrounding communities.
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An analysis of factors leading to the establishment of a social licence to operate in the mining industry
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative case study analysis of four international mining operations is presented, including Red Dog Mine in Alaska, USA, Minto Mine in Yukon, Canada, the proposed Tambogrande Mine in Peru, and the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea.
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