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Le boom des ressources naturelles en Afrique a tire la croissance danstoute la region, sans contribuer de maniere substantielle a ameliorer lebien-etre et les moyens de subsistance des citoyens. Les personnes vivantdans les pays africains richement dotes en ressources naturelles sontmoins alphabetisees de 3 %, ont une esperance de vie plus faible de 4,5ans et affichent des taux de malnutrition plus eleves chez les femmes etles enfants que dans les pays de la region n'ayant pas de ressourcesnaturelles. Cette lenteur dans la reduction de la pauvrete est souventattribuee a la croissance economique tiree par les ressources naturelles -la denommee malediction des ressources naturelles. Au-dela de l'impactglobal, les communautes vivant a proximite des centres minierssouffrent-elles egalement d'une malediction des ressources naturelles ?L'exploitation miniere en Afrique - Les communautes locales en tirent-ellesparti ? examine comment l'exploitation aurifere a grande echelle danstrois pays - le Ghana, le Mali et la Tanzanie - affecte les moyens desubsistance et les communautes locales. L'analyse et les resultats desauteurs concluent qu'en moyenne, les communautes minieres beneficientd'avantages sociaux positifs bien que limites. L'etude definit trois grandscanaux - marche, fiscal et environnemental - pouvant affecter les localites.Les auteurs appliquent ce cadre d'analyse a l'exploitation aurifere agrande echelle dans les trois pays de l'etude et ils utilisent des methodeseconometriques solides pour evaluer ces effets au niveau local.Si le defi de l'extraction des ressources naturelles est traite dans toutes sesdimensions, des pistes pour une prosperite partagee et une meilleureegalite peuvent etre ouvertes, creant ainsi une vie meilleure pour lesfamilles et ameliorant les perspectives des pays dans lesquels elles vivent.Ce livre a pour objectif d'eclairer les politiques publiques et lecomportement des entreprises concernant le bien-etre des communautessituees a proximite des sites d'extraction et les opportunites que l'activiteminiere peut leur offrir.

Gold Mining and Agriculture --- Growth Model and Results --- Local Impacts of Resource Abundance --- Remote Sensing and Economic Activities --- Socioeconomic Effects of Large-Scale Mining

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In almost any industry, the day-to-day lived experiences of workers directly shape production processes. Those experiences are of fundamental importance to a range of managerial concerns including organisational behaviour and human resource management, organisational safety and risk management, production systems, work relations and change management. Yet they are too often overlooked by the executives and managers who design management strategies. In this book, Sizwe Phakathi addresses such issues head-on, providing insights into the underlying social, human, managerial and organisational processes that shape workers' orientations towards reorganisation of work, production, safety, teamwork and work relations. Through an in-depth study of a deep-level mining workplace, Phakathi brings to the fore the realities of how work processes shape the actions of frontline teams, production supervisors and managers. He points out how these realities trigger the informal work practice of making a plan, which is an indispensable organisational tactic for production, safety, teamwork and work relations in the mining workplace. In the process, he highlights frontline miners' perspectives of managing, balancing and coping with the competing demands of physically challenging work, production, safety and team dynamics while at the rock-face. This book will help practitioners, policy-makers and researchers to understand the factors influencing work processes, production, safety, teamwork and work relations - not only in a mining workplace but more generally as well. The insights it provides into the importance of day-to-day lived working experiences will help them to improve organisational, employee and team performance.

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Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts. Consequently, political movements and nongovernmental organizations increasingly contest the risks that corporations pose to people and nature. Mining Capitalism examines the strategies through which corporations manage their relationships with these critics and adversaries. By focusing on the conflict over the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea, Stuart Kirsch tells the story of a slow-moving environmental disaster and the international network of indigenous peoples, advocacy groups, and lawyers that sought to protect local rivers and rain forests. Along the way, he analyzes how corporations promote their interests by manipulating science and invoking the discourses of sustainability and social responsibility. Based on two decades of anthropological research, this book is comparative in scope, showing readers how similar dynamics operate in other industries around the world.

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