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Local Livelihoods, Global Interests and the State in the Congolese Mining Sector

In: Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

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  • Sara Geenen

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The relationship between mining and development is characterised by ‘contentiousness’ and ‘ambiguity’ (Bebbington et alii, 2008: 887): ‘Contentious because mining has so often delivered adverse social, environmental and economic effects for the many, but significant gains only for the few; ambiguous because of the abiding sense […] that just maybe mining could contribute much more.’ The most outspoken denouncers of these adverse effects on growth and equity are the advocates of the ‘resource curse’ thesis (Auty, 1993; Sachs and Warner, 1995). The thesis suggests that the abundant presence of natural resources generates a number of economic (mainly Dutch disease1 and revenue volatility) and political effects (bad governance, corrupt institutions), which will eventually undermine a country’s development.

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  • Sara Geenen, 2011. "Local Livelihoods, Global Interests and the State in the Congolese Mining Sector," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: An Ansoms & Stefaan Marysse (ed.), Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, chapter 8, pages 149-169, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-30499-4_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230304994_8
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    1. Nik Stoop & Janvier Kilosho Buraye & Marijke Verpoorten, 2016. "Relocation, reorientation, or confrontation? Insights from a representative survey among artisanal miners in Kamituga, South-Kivu," Working Papers of LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance 573254, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance.
    2. Karen Büscher & Gillian Mathys, 2019. "War, Displacement and Rural–Urban Transformation: Kivu’s Boomtowns, Eastern D.R. Congo," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 31(1), pages 53-71, January.
    3. Geenen, Sara, 2014. "Dispossession, displacement and resistance: Artisanal miners in a gold concession in South-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 40(C), pages 90-99.

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