Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions [PDF]
Journal of Economic Geography, 2023 This article explores how the gold mining sector has adapted and evolved in developing countries since the onset of the global pandemic. A major criticism of capital-intensive gold mines has been that they occur as enclaves which fail to catalyze local
G. Hilson +5 more
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Exploring Local Conceptions of Poverty, Wealth and Well-Being: Field Evidence from Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe [PDF]
, 2010 This article presents the conceptions of poverty by the poor in Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe. It seeks to broaden the discussion of poverty around the definition of the poor from the perspective of the poor.
O. Mtapuri
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Dual Enclavity and Nomadicity. Life Trajectories of Kyrgyz Horse Racing Riders Working in Poland [PDF]
Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd PolonijnyIn recent years (since 2019), a professional niche formed by Kyrgyz men has rapidly risen to dominate the horse racing ranking in Poland.
Barbara Bossak-Herbst
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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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Mining in Africa after the supercycle : New directions and geographies [PDF]
, 2021 Mining in Africa is at a pivotal moment. For most of the period 2000 to 2012, the extractive industries were in a ‘supercycle’ of sustained high commodity prices.
Bowman, Andrew +5 more
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PLATYPUS: Software-based Power Side-Channel Attacks on x86
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2021 Power side-channel attacks exploit variations in power consumption to extract secrets from a device, e.g., cryptographic keys. Prior attacks typically required physical access to the target device and specialized equipment such as probes and a high ...
Moritz Lipp +6 more
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Exploring local content in Guinea's bauxite sector: Obstacles, opportunities and future trajectories [PDF]
, 2021 In recent years, resource-rich developing countries have increasingly adopted Local Content Policies (LCPs) as a means of stimulating locally-driven, resource-based development. Such policies, which seek to catalyse development through the procurement of
Maconachie, Roy, Wilhelm, Cindy
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The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C): Rationale, design, infrastructure, and deployment
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2020 Objective Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses societal challenges that require expeditious data and knowledge sharing. Though organizational clinical data are abundant, these are largely inaccessible to outside researchers.
M. Haendel +55 more
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Plundervolt: Software-based Fault Injection Attacks against Intel SGX
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2020 Dynamic frequency and voltage scaling features have been introduced to manage ever-growing heat and power consumption in modern processors. Design restrictions ensure frequency and voltage are adjusted as a pair, based on the current load, because for ...
Kit Murdock +5 more
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Primitive Accumulation, Enclavity, Rural Marginalisation & Articulation
, 2007 In March 2006, the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Civil Society in Durban aimed to reinvigorate a tradition of political economy by considering the legacies of Guy Mhone and José Negrão (who died in 2005) along with two others whose work was ...
P. Bond
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