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Modes of Governance and Revenue Flows in African Mining

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Campbell, Bonnie K.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137332318

ISBN: 978-1-349-46675-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 23, 2015

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Introduction

Campbell, Bonnie K.

Pages: 1 –15

[Increased investment in the mining sector in Africa is often presented as a key strategy to leverage growth and development on the continent. The reforms introduced to this end in the 1980s and 1990s have indeed contributed significantly to an increase in investment. According to a United...
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An Overview of Revenue Flows from the Mining Sector: Impacts, Debates and Policy Recommendations

Jacobs, John

Pages: 16 –47

[Approaches to mining reform in Africa have most often reflected, and often continue to reflect, a donor driven and ‘investment-led’ perspective to the development of the sector and of the economies in which mining activities take place. This heritage has oriented the manner in which the...
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Regulatory Framework Review and Mining Regime Reform in Mali: Degrees of Rupture and Continuity

Gagné-Ouellet, Saël

Pages: 47 –100

[For several mineral-rich African countries, the 1980s marked the beginning of an important series of regulatory, institutional and economic reforms. The objective of these reforms was the stimulation of economic growth and the alleviation of poverty through the development of an extractive...
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Constraints to Maximization of Net National Retained Earnings from the Mining Sector: Challenges for National Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in Sub Saharan Africa as Illustrated by Ghana

Akabzaa, Thomas M.

Pages: 101 –137

[Ghana’s main extractive resources sectors include minerals, forestry and wildlife, fisheries and large scale water resources abstraction as a result of the construction of hydroelectric dams.1 Minerals, forestry, and wildlife and fisheries account for 15 per cent of Ghana’s gross domestic...
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Artisanal Mining in Ghana: Institutional Arrangements, Resource Flows and Poverty Alleviation

Hilson, Gavin; Okoh, Godfried

Pages: 138 –163

[Over the past decade, Ghana’s policymakers have become increasingly preoccupied with extracting a larger share of profits from booming large-scale mineral exploration and mining activities. The series of generous tax breaks enshrined within reformed mining policy described in Chapter 3 by Thomas...
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Tracing Revenue Flows, Governance and the Challenges of Poverty Reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Artisanal Mining Sector

de Failly, Didier S. J.; Ntakobajira, Zacharie Bulakali; Shonja, Lucien Bahimba

Pages: 164 –222

[This chapter is the result of several years of research by a small team of three people who had set out to cast light on some of the discrepancies between the DRC’s artisanal mining legislation and practices in the field, under the title Exploitations minières au Kivu et Maniema: Réalités vs...
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Conclusion

Campbell, Bonnie K.

Pages: 223 –238

[The diagnosis of the disappointing results of investments in the mining sector in mineral-rich countries of Africa in terms of their contribution to sustainable economic and social development needs no longer to be confirmed. The question is how to move towards more transformative and inclusive...

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