Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146277 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/83
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper explores the potential to leverage large-scale mineral extraction in Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to foster mineral beneficiation and upstream industries. The evidence suggests that the success or failure of a resource-based industrialization approach is country and sector specific, requiring the deployment of different and appropriately tailored policy instruments. We also find that the design and implementation of resource-based industrialization policies is heavily influenced by power relationships, in terms of control over mining rents, relationships between mining companies and domestic business, and across different segments of the domestic business sector.
Subjects: 
linkage development
supplier development
beneficiation
Southern Africa
resource-based industrialization
JEL: 
L5
L6
O1
O25
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-126-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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