A small farming community is fighting an epic battle against an international mining giant Xolobeni, a community of 200 small farmers running herds of cattle and farming a patchwork of fields of crops and home gardens,...
Dr Alain Tschudin
Resource-rich countries should up their game
Resource-rich countries are losing billions in revenue through bad and inefficient tax regimes and underselling mining assets The Africa Progress Panel puts it well: if Africa is so resource-rich, why are its people...
Resource-rich countries should up their game
Resource-rich countries are losing billions in revenue through bad and inefficient tax regimes and underselling mining assets The Africa Progress Panel puts it well: if Africa is so resource-rich, why are its people...
Getting natural resources governance right
Mining development in Africa will persist in doing more harm than good unless stakeholders commit to respecting the rights of affected communities At the end of April 2017 current and former heads of state, senior...
How UNCTAD gets it wrong
UNCTAD’s claims that commodity producers in several African countries are deliberately misinvoicing exports to hide illegal capital flight are mostly based on faulty data In July 2016, the United Nations Conference on...
Extractive industries: Opportunity or threat?
In the face of increasing automation, Africa’s resource economies will not have the time to create an industrial middle class as developed nations did The effect of increasing mechanisation on the industrial sector has...
