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Governing African Gold Mining

Private Governance and the Resource Curse. International Political Economy Series

By (author) Ainsley Elbra
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Published: 10th Nov 2016
Dimensions: w 148mm h 210mm d 16mm
Weight: 459g
ISBN-10: 1137563532
ISBN-13: 9781137563538
Barcode No: 9781137563538
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Synopsis
This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa's resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship's state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms are actively controlling the regulation of the gold mining sector. It shows how large mining firms with significant private authority in South Africa, Ghana and Tanzania are able to engender rules and regulations that are acknowledged by other actors, and in some cases even adopted by the state. In doing so, it establishes that firms are co-governing Africa's gold mining sector. By exploring the implications for resource-cursed states, this significant work argues that firm-led regulation can improve governance, but that many of these initiatives fail to address country/mine specific issues where there remains a role for the state in ensuring the benefits of mining flow to local communities. It will appeal to economists, political scientists, and policy-makers and practitioners working in the field of mining and extractives.

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