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Local content in extractive industries: Evidence and lessons from Chile’s copper sector and Malaysia’s petroleum sector

, 2020
This paper examines the role of industrial policy in providing incentives for resource-based industrialization and overcoming market obstacles in the development of local suppliers in extractive sectors.
Amir Lebdioui
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Enterprise development? Local content, corporate social responsibility and disjunctive linkages in Ghana’s oil and gas industry

, 2020
The government of Ghana, in partnership with various Multinational Oil Companies (MNCs), implemented an enterprise development project for the oil and gas industry.
A. D. Ablo
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Corruption and local content development: Assessing the impact of the Petrobras’ scandal on recent policy changes in Brazil

The Extractive Industries and Society, 2020
Since the 2000s, the Brazilian government relied heavily on local content (LC) as a policy instrument in the oil and gas sector to facilitate industrial development and job creation.
Renato Lima-de-Oliveira
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Semantic Localism and the Locality of Content

Erkenntnis, 1998
Semantic localism is the view of meaning defended by Michael Devitt in Coming to Our Senses. In this paper I assess this view by considering how well it answers the concerns that led Akeel Bilgrami in Belief and Meaning to put forward his thesis of the locality of content.
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Using local content policies to engender resource-based development in Zambia: A chronicle of a death foretold?

, 2020
The commodity super cycle, shifting terms of trade, new oil discoveries, and altering geographies of supply and demand have restored confidence in resource-based development in the Global South.
P. Kragelund
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Cultivating backward linkages to Zambia’s copper mines: Debating the design of, and obstacles to, local content

, 2020
Several scholars have recently advocated for natural resource-based industrialisation in sub-Saharan Africa. Many consider local content policies (LCPs) as the most appropriate vehicle for such an endeavour.
Alexander Caramento
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Domestication of the role of the mining sector in Southern Africa through local content requirements

, 2020
This paper discusses the rationale for, and use of, local content requirements (LCRs) in the mining sector. In many countries, LCRs are being used to facilitate wealth creation, local participation, domestic linkages and clusters growth, and socio ...
O. Maponga, C. Musa
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Implementing local content under the Africa Mining Vision: an achievable outcome?

, 2020
In 2009, the Africa Mining Vision (AMV) was adopted by African governments. A major objective of this extractive industries-led development manifesto is to stimulate and optimise economic linkages in the mining sector, with a view toward facilitating ...
Patricia Ackah-Baidoo
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Catalyzing Local Contention

2021
Abstract Drawing on the global debates over biofuels and fracking, this chapter develops the core theoretical approach of the book, bringing together insights from contentious politics and political economy scholarship. The chapter details three central mechanisms of mobilization: scale shifts, identity activation, and brokerage.
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Securing Local Content

2017
This chapter describes what is meant by local content and examines the diverse incentives that countries can use to favor domestic suppliers/contractors, and how these have necessarily changed over time. The unique nature of the Norwegian licensing system allowed the state to allocate offshore exploration and development responsibilities.
Jonathon W. Moses, Bjørn Letnes
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