There are currently no universal definitions of artisanal or small-scale mining. The lack of consensus, as echoed by several researchers, e.g., Priester et al., 1993; Taupitz et al., 1993 and others, is due to the fact ...

The Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting (AEGM) brought together eminent African scholars and academics involved in governance, development and democratization issues in Africa; practitioners and consultants in the various aspects ...

This paper focuses on mission report and It's main objective was to identify best practices to upgrade and upscale artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) into a viable economic sector and also to identify opportunities for ...

With the growing appreciation that it is a fundamental prerequisite for the realization of development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed on by the world leaders at the September 2000 UN ...

The study found that the four countries had undertaken far reaching CSRs with Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya beginning their reforms as far back as the late 1980s after the implementation of SAP while South Africa begun its own ...

The trend towards market-oriented economic development gives an increasingly prominent recognition of the private sector as the engine for economic growth and development. The State on the other hand is more and more been ...