FDI from a ‘financing for development’ perspective. Opportunities for Africa’s Great Lakes Region

Cassimon, Danny; Verbeke, Karel; Verpoorten, Marijke

doi:10.3917/rpve.551.0029

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“…In contrast, large-scale mining in developing countries only provides about two million jobs (Tibbett, 2009). Furthermore, despite the existence of some multiplier effects through indirect and induced jobs (World Gold Council, 2015), large-scale mining struggles to establish linkages with the local economy (Bazillier and Girard, 2020;Cassimon et al, 2016), and has lower poverty-reducing effects compared to agriculture, transport services and agro-processing (Christiaensen and Martin, 2018). Gold is estimated to account for about half of all ASM operations worldwide, and while providing only 12% to 20% of the total global gold production, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is estimated to create up to 90% of total employment in gold mining (IGF, 2018;Levin, 2014;Seccatore et al, 2014;Verbrugge and Geenen 2020).…”

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How much do artisanal miners earn? An inquiry among Congolese gold miners

2021

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How much do artisanal miners earn? An inquiry among Congolese gold miners

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“…While the inflow of FDI has improved DRC’s macro-economic performance, industrial mining has not generated much tangible benefits for the population. In contrast to ASM, the capital-intensive production mode creates little employment (Radley 2019), and struggles to establish forward and backward linkages with the local economy (Cassimon, Verbeke, and Verpoorten 2016). Moreover, industrial mining often takes place in areas where artisanal miners are present, thus threatening existing employment.…”

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Would You Fight? We Asked Aggrieved Artisanal Miners in Eastern Congo

Stoop

Verpoorten

2020

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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To meet the rising demand for minerals, mining companies have ventured into fragile areas, often at the expense of artisanal miners. This has led to grievances, and at times violence. Who among the aggrieved intend to use violence? How can peace be maintained? This paper uses individual-level data to address these questions. Among a sample of 469 about-to-be-evicted artisanal miners in Eastern Congo, we inquire about the intention to engage in several forms of violence. We identify how this intention varies with miners’ past exposure to violence and attitudes towards policies that seek social peace. A large proportion of miners intends to destroy the company’s property, attack its employees, use fire arms, or join an armed group. These would-be-fighters are motivated by grievances, as well as material and social incentives. Our results contribute to understanding the micro-motivations underpinning the local resource curse and entail concrete lessons for mining policies.

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From Workfare to Economic and Sociopolitical Stability? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Eastern Congo

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Mvukiyehe,

Smets

et al. 2024

The World Bank Economic Review

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Did a workfare program in Eastern Congo have a lasting impact on economic and sociopolitical outcomes? Men and women in Eastern Congo were randomly assigned to 2,674 four-month job offers, or to the job offer plus a savings incentive, hard-skills training, or both. Eighteen months after the program, labor market and savings outcomes have improved, but there is no change across 12 other economic and sociopolitical outcome families. Regarding labor market outcomes, the most intensive treatment—the job offer plus the savings incentive and hard-skills training—outperforms treatments with only one add-on. This indicates that the savings incentive and hard-skills training, when combined, can create a synergistic impact greater than the sum of their individual effects. The results are mainly driven by female beneficiaries, who start at much lower levels of labor market participation and earnings than men.

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FDI from a ‘financing for development’ perspective. Opportunities for Africa’s Great Lakes Region

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

How much do artisanal miners earn? An inquiry among Congolese gold miners

How much do artisanal miners earn? An inquiry among Congolese gold miners

Would You Fight? We Asked Aggrieved Artisanal Miners in Eastern Congo

From Workfare to Economic and Sociopolitical Stability? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Eastern Congo

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