Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus [PDF]
, 2023 Since the turn of the century, low-income African countries have undergone a process of mining industrialization led by transnational corporations. The process has been sustained by an African Mining Consensus uniting international financial institutions,
Radley, Ben
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Skills development and structural change: possibilities for and limitations of redressing structural racial inequalities in South Africa [PDF]
, 2013 Improving structural racial equality for historically-disadvantaged Black South Africans, including low-skilled and unemployed adults and youths, is a pertinent challenge for the South African government during the ongoing transition from apartheid ...
Groener, Zelda
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The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave [PDF]
, 2023 This paper aims to study how geopolitical shifts affect regional economies and their structures. Border functions and regimes act as tools for the economy and society to adapt to the redistribution of political influence, movements of people, goods ...
Kolosov, Vladimir +1 more
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Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo [PDF]
, 2023 This article deploys the term ‘green imperialism’ to denote the specificities of contemporary imperialism within the context of the hoped-for global transition towards low-carbon capitalist economies and societies in the coming decades.
Radley, Ben
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Enclave Rustenburg : platinum mining and the post-apartheid social order [PDF]
, 2015 In the absence of a levelling out of income and resources, as well as arbitrary violence in everyday life, the post-apartheid social order is characterised by the formation of various enclaves.
Bezuidenhout, Andries, Buhlungu, Sakhela
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Decent work and informal employment: A survey of workers in Glen View, Harare [PDF]
, 2008 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Luebker, Malte
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Narrativa emergente contra a indústria extractiva em Tete : renegociando instituições através de protestos populares? [PDF]
, 2017 O presente artigo discute a interacção de cinco variáveis fundamentais, nomeadamente protestos populares, responsabilidade social empresarial (RSE), arranjos institucionais, desenvolvimento local e inclusão social.
Chivangue, Andes
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Kaliningrad: Enclaves and Economic Integration [PDF]
, 2007 As the Soviet Union broke up, Kaliningrad suddenly found itself separated from mainland Russia by new frontiers. Hardly any other Russian region has been hit as hard by the economic disruption as Kaliningrad.
Vinokurov, Evgeny
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Resource enclavity and corporate social responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa:the case of oil production in Ghana [PDF]
Why has Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) yielded such disappointing outcomes in oil-rich sub-Saharan Africa? Over the past decades, a sizable body of literature has emerged which draws attention to the shortcomings of oil-related development and ...
Hilson, Abigail
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Gender and artisanal and small-scale mining: Exploring women's livelihood and occupational roles in formalised settings [PDF]
, 2022 Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has often been touted as an employment-creation avenue for millions of operators worldwide, including women. This employment-generation narrative has, however, been occasioned by the immense scholarly focus on the ...
Ofosu, George +2 more
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