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Marine mining and its potential implications for low- and middle-income countries

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  • Anton Löf
  • Magnus Ericsson
  • Olof Löf

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After 50 years of optimistic predictions that marine mining will soon take off, it still remains to be seen if and when this will happen. In 2018 the total value of all marine mining, including both offshore mining and the so far non-existing deep-seabed mining, was estimated to be around US$35 billion, less than 1 per cent of land-based mining. This paper focuses on the potential economic effects for LICs and MICs of expanding the extraction of marine deposits.

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  • Anton Löf & Magnus Ericsson & Olof Löf, 2022. "Marine mining and its potential implications for low- and middle-income countries," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-170, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Marine resources; Mining; Fiscal regime; Low income countries; Middle-income countries;
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