Governing African Gold Mining
Author: Ainsley Elbra
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Published: 2017
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ainsley Elbra
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-31
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1137563540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms are actively controlling the regulation of the gold mining sector. It shows how large mining firms with significant private authority in South Africa, Ghana and Tanzania are able to engender rules and regulations that are acknowledged by other actors, and in some cases even adopted by the state. In doing so, it establishes that firms are co-governing Africa’s gold mining sector. By exploring the implications for resource-cursed states, this significant work argues that firm-led regulation can improve governance, but that many of these initiatives fail to address country/mine specific issues where there remains a role for the state in ensuring the benefits of mining flow to local communities. It will appeal to economists, political scientists, and policy-makers and practitioners working in the field of mining and extractives.
Author: Ainsley Elbra
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal mining firms are taking a leading role in the governance of sub-Saharan Africa's gold mining industries. No longer are states seen as the sole source of authority and governance, instead, non-state actors such as firms and industry organisations are contributing to the regulation of the sector through private governance initiatives. This paper highlights the role firms play in governing the gold mining sector using primary evidence gathered through analysis of firms' annual reporting. Firms' annual reports were analysed to highlight the differences between their stated rationales for participating in private governance initiatives. Through this content analysis it is shown that gold mining firms with broad geographical footprints engage with private governance in order to simplify their compliance burden. Smaller firms are more likely to cite normative reasons for supporting private governance regimes, including a desire to appease stakeholders and communities in their country of operation. Overall, the theoretical and empirical evidence presented in this paper suggests large, multi-national mining firms are more likely to develop and engage with private governance initiatives and that they do so in order to determine the regulatory structure of their industry, thereby sharing sovereignty with sub-Saharan African states.
Author: B. Campbell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-21
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 113733231X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcademics, policy-makers and practitioners from Africa and beyond document new ways of thinking about issues concerning governance and revenue flows in mining activities in Ghana, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Author: Roman Grynberg
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-04-22
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 303065995X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book explores the evolving economics of gold as a global commodity as well as the production and trade of gold in and from the African continent. The growth of gold as an increasingly important and diverse source of African wealth is examined, alongside the impact that the rise of China in the 21st century has had on the demand for gold. The volatility of the gold price has increased as a result of the dramatic decline of gold demand for manufacturing purposes. Gold is Africa’s second largest export after oil and is a perfect metaphor for a continent rich in resources while so much of its population lives in such dire poverty. The artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) sector, is surprisingly widely perceived as being beneficial to the development of Africa despite its exploitation and dreadful health and environmental consequences. African Gold: Production, Trade and Economic Development considers policy issues regarding the gold mining sector, the economics of beneficiation, the retreat of jewelry manufacturing across the continent as well as ‘Africa’s golden future’. It is a relevant book for both academics and policymakers interested in Africa, natural resource, and development economics.
Author: Fred J. Lock
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Artwell Nhemachena
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9956764566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a pacesetter in matters of mining and the environment in Africa from multidisciplinary and spatio-temporal perspectives. The book approaches mining from the perspectives of law, politics, archaeology, anthropology, African studies, geography, human ecology, sociology, history, economics and development. It interrogates mining and environment from the perspectives of customary law as well as from the perspectives of Euro-modern laws. In this sense, the book straddles precolonial, colonial and postcolonial mining and environmental perspectives. In all this, it maintains a Pan-Africanist perspective that also speaks to contemporary debates on African Renaissance and to the unity of Africa. From scrutinising the lived realities of African miners who are often insensitively and unjustly addressed as illegal miners, the book also interrogates transnational mining corporations; matters of corporate social responsibility as well as matters of tax evasions by transnational corporations whose commitment to accountability to African governments is questioned. With both theoretical chapters and chapter based on empirical studies on mining and the environment across the African continent, the book provides a much needed holistic, one stop shop for scholars, activists, researchers and policy makers who need a comprehensive treatise on African mining and the environment. The book comes at the right time when matters of African mining and environment are increasingly coming to the fore in the light of discourses about the new 21st century scramble for African resources, in which big transnational corporations and nations are jostling to suck Africa dry in their race to control planetary resources. It is a book that speaks to contemporary broader issues of (de-)coloniality and transformation of African minds and African environmental resources.
Author: Bonnie Campbell
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2009-06-15
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 074532939X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe continent of Africa is rich in minerals needed by Western economies, but rather than forming the basis for economic growth the mining industry contributes very little to African development Investigating the impact of the 2003 Extractive Industries Review on a number of African countries, the contributors find the root of the problem in the controls imposed on the African countries by the IMF and World Bank. They aim to convince academics, governments and industry that regulation needs to be reformed to create a mining industry favourable towards social, economic and environmental development. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach and provides a historical perspective of each country, making it ideal for students of development studies and development organizations.
Author: Bonnie K. Campbell
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9789171065278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiberalisation of the mining sector in Africa in the 1980s: a developmental perspective. II.
Author: Victoria R. Nalule
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-06-09
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1000869504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the various issues that characterise the African mining sector, drawing examples from different African countries and regional organisations. Although there is a massive literature on the subject, some issues have been neglected, including the crucial role of digitalisation and technological advancement in resolving the environmental and social challenges faced in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM), deep-sea mining, mining contract negotiations and modernising mining laws to reflect the increasing role of critical minerals, to mention but a few. Therefore, the book unpacks the critical issues associated with the mining sector, explicitly reflecting on the practical solutions needed to address the challenges in the African mining sector. This book uniquely analyses and adds flavour to international mining’s fundamental concepts by describing a simulated annealing-based approach appropriate for complex mining projects in Africa. Book contributors comprise of academics from different universities including professors, practitioners, government policymakers, NGO executives and a variety of different experts. This multidisciplinary book will be of interest to African policymakers, governments, academics, industry professionals, energy and mining institutions, international organisations, universities across the globe and companies.