Mining and poverty reduction: Transforming rhetoric into reality

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 376-387

  Pegg, Scott ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extractive Industries Review; Mining; Poverty alleviation; Poverty reduction; Resource curse; World Bank

Indexed keywords

MINERAL RESOURCES; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES REVIEW; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; POVERTY REDUCTION; RESOURCE CURSE; WORLD BANK;

MINING;

EID: 29144495568     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2004.06.006     Document Type: Article

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