The Local Socioeconomic Effects of Gold Mining
The total data set includes 19,705 women (of which 12,392 live within 100 km of a mine) aged 15–49 from 137 districts. They were surveyed in 1993, 1998, 2003, and 2008,6 and live in 1,623 survey clusters. Since the DHS surveys focus on women, the surveys of women will be the main source of data.
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Climate-Smart Mining: Minerals for Climate Action …
The Climate-Smart Mining Initiative will help resource-rich developing countries benefit from the increasing demand for minerals and metals, while ensuring the mining sector is managed in a way that minimizes …
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Climate-Smart Mining: Minerals for Climate Action
Toward Sustainable Mining, Sunshine for Mines. July 2017; The Energy Mix, Congo Cobalt Will Continue to Supply Emerging European Battery Industry, Deign, J. June 2018; World Bank, Mineral Demand Analysis of Energy Technologies Based on IEA ETP 2017 Scenarios. World Bank, September 2018. This infographic shows how the world is …
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Document of The World Bank
The World Bank DRC-Growth with Governance in the Mineral Sector (P106982) Page 2 of 92 FINANCING Original Amount (US$) Revised Amount (US$) Actual Disbursed (US$) World Bank Financing IDA‐H5890 50,000,000 50,000,000 44,780,770 TF‐10744 36,963,743 5,326,496 6,167,980
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Impactful Women
As Global Director for Gender, Hana Brixi leads a global effort to promote gender equality and women's empowerment. She sets the overall direction for the World Bank Group's Gender knowledge agenda, drives Bank-wide efforts for results in closing gender gaps, and fosters partnerships with public and private sector stakeholders toward …
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Mining
From 1988 to 2011, there have been 39 World Bank-supported projects in mining sector reform, with at least one project almost every year. About 60 percent of the operations have been in Sub-Saharan Africa, with most of the rest in East Asia and the Pacific and Latin America. Total funding has been $1.31 billion, although the average project ...
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World Bank Document
Mali is Africa's third-largest gold producer (after South Africa and Ghana), and is ranked eighth in the world. Since the early 2000s, gold has become the highest export product of Mali, replacing cotton. In 2013, gold accounted for 65 percent of the total exports, including 7 percent for artisanal-scale mining (figure 2a).
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South Africa Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
Inflation averaged 6.0% in 2023 but stood at 9.3% for those at the bottom 20% of the income distribution. Key Development Challenges. South Africa has taken considerable strides to improve the well-being of its citizens since its transition to democracy in the mid-1990s, but progress has stagnated in the last decade.
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Shifting Formalization Policies and Recentralizing Power: …
debate on the degree to which postcolonial mining laws, policies, and governance apparatuses provide opportunities for ASM licensing (Murungu et al. 2012). In the 1990s, economic structural adjustment programs implemented by the government of Zimbabwe under the auspices of the World Bank prioritized mining but focused
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Local Industrial Shocks, Empowerment and …
The stock of gold is continuously increasing (Taurasi 2014), and the production of gold and the gold price are, if anything, positively correlated as newly extracted gold is only a fraction of the gold stock and not enough to affect the price. This implies that the world price of gold is strictly exogenoustolocalproduction. 3
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World Bank Group Approves $20 Million Grant to Support Sierra Leone's
WASHINGTON, November 22, 2017 — Today, the World Bank approved a $20 million International Development Association (IDA)* Grant for the second phase of the Extractive Industries Technical Assistance Project (EITAP 2) to help strengthen governance, increase geological knowledge, and support the artisanal mining sector in the country.
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The Growing Role of Minerals and Metals for a Low …
This report was developed as a collaboration between the World Bank's Oil, Gas, and Mining team of the Energy and Extractives Global Practice (GEEDR) and the Climate …
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Climate-Smart Mining Initiative
The Climate-Smart Mining (CSM) Initiative provides advice, analytics, and capacity building to resource-rich developing countries that will support them to decarbonize and reduce the material footprint of critical mineral supply chains required for the clean energy transition, whilst enabling these countries to benefit through sustainable ...
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Open Knowledge Repository
Abstract. The Botswana Mining Investment and Governance Review (MInGov) collects and shares information on mining sector governance, its attractiveness to investors and how its activities affect national development. It reviews sector performance from the perspective of three main stakeholder groups – government, investors in the mining …
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Public Mining
6.3 Policy options for development of geo-science sector 44 7. Investment promotion 46 7.1 Overview 46 7.2 Policy options for increased promotion 47 8. Environmental management 49 8.1 Analysis of Current Policy and Regulatory Framework 50 8.2 Key Issues 54 8.3 Policy Options 55 9. Social Issues 58 9.1 Community Development 58
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Mining: Sector Results Profile
Argentina: Mining investment in Argentina was US$56 million in 1995. By 2008, 13 years after an IBRD-supported reform of the mining sector began, it reached US$2.4 billion. Exports had grown by 275 percent to US$4.1 billion. The Bank also worked with sub-national governments because mineral rights are held provincially in Argentina.
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Mali Governance of Mining Sector
Mali Governance of Mining Sector. IDA Credit: US $40 million equivalent. Credit Maturity: 38 years Grace: 6 years. Project ID: P164242. Project Description: The project will strengthen the capacity of the mining sector to contribute to Mali's medium-term growth and sustainable development objectives. The project will strengthen the capacity ...
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Key Dates Key Project Dates Public Disclosure …
The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Mali Governance of Mining Sector (P164242) 11/5/2019 Page 2 of 8 mission in August 2019, the World Bank team suggested that the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum submit the ToRs for this activity and the signature of the multiparty agreement for the pilot phase. 3.
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Zambia Mining Investment and Governance Review
The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Rights and Permissions
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Climate-Smart Mining Initiative
The Climate-Smart Mining Initiative will help resource-rich developing countries benefit from the increasing demand for minerals and metals, while ensuring the mining sector is …
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Ghana Gets Support to Address Impacts from Artisanal
An additional financing of $19.39 million was approved by the World Bank Board of Executives Directors today. It is based on two tranches of a grant and loan of $9.89 million for Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Forest Landscapes and $9.50 million to build private sector engagement in plantation activities in the Brong …
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Guinea: World Bank Provides Support to Improve the Management of Mining
The World Bank Board of Directors approved today $65 million from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Natural Resources, Mining and Environmental Management Project in Guinea. This project will support Guinea to protect and invest in its natural capital. Activities will focus on environmental management and …
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Accelerating Mongolia's Development Requires a
A new report by the World Bank estimates that out of every dollar in mineral revenues Mongolia has generated over the past 20 years, only one cent has been saved …
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Tanzania Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
Overview. Tanzania's economy has been resilient, growing by 5.2% in 2023 compared to 4.6% in 2022. The services sector remained the main driving force behind Tanzania's overall economic growth, expanding by 7.3%, supported by buoyant economic activities in financial and insurance, transport and storage, and trade and repair subsectors.
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Emergency Response for Artisanal and Small-Scale
Emergency Response for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Communities Impacted by COVID-19. COVID-19 is not only a worldwide public health emergency but has become an international economic crisis. Recent World Bank estimates indicate that COVID-19 is likely to cause the first increase of global poverty since 1998, pushing 71 to 100 million ...
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Resource policies and small-scale gold mining in Zimbabwe
Abstract. This article examines the policy framework in place for small-scale gold mining in Zimbabwe. Through an analysis of stakeholder interviews and industry performance, the paper argues that the main government initiatives to manage gold mining in recent years have proved counterproductive, as economic returns from minerals have ...
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Responsible Gold Mining Principles | World Gold Council
A number of leading standards already exist that address specific aspects of responsible gold mining, including the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human …
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Shifting Formalization Policies and Recentralizing Power: …
The Case of Zimbabwe's Artisanal Gold Mining Sector, Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal, 28:5, 543-558, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1014606 ... official ''formalization'' rationales for mining policy shifts obscured their underlying ... of Zimbabwe under the auspices of the World Bank prioritized mining but focused on ...
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The World Bank
The World Bank Extractive Industries Technical Assistance Project Phase 2 (P160719) Page 9 of 92 I. STRATEGIC CONTEXT A. Country Context 1. Sierra Leone has a population of about 7 million with approximately 39.1 percent living in urban areas and the urbanization rate is projected to reach 43.8 percent in 2030.
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Liberia Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
Liberia's current account deficit remained high in 2023, despite increased gold exports. The country's current account deficit increased to 24.4% of GDP, up from 17.7% in 2022. The increase in the current account deficit was driven by trade dynamics. The trade deficit worsened to 18.4% of GDP, from 11.8% in 2022, as growth in imports …
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