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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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Table of contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Theoretical Explanations forĀ Firm-Led Governance
- Chapter 3: A History ofĀ Gold Mining inĀ South Africa, Ghana andĀ Tanzania
- Chapter 4: Private Governance inĀ theĀ Gold Mining Sector
- Chapter 5: Firmsā Rationales: Public Reporting
- Chapter 6: The Discursive Power ofĀ Firms
- Chapter 7: Private Governance asĀ aĀ Solution toĀ theĀ Resource Curse
- Appendix A: Millennium Development Goals
- Appendix B: Coding Rules
- Appendix C: Interview Questions
- Index