Mining and Development - Pathways to Sustainable & Inclusive Growth

This video clip is well worth a look - mining has a role to play in development but only if it is properly managed.

This is an important clip - much more important than you might think.

For resource rich countries, mining policy is central to their developmental prospects: it's about ensuring that the sector is both sustainable and genuinely contributing to the economy - most notably in the form of tax revenues - rather than encouraging rent seeking behaviours.

You can find out more from the World Bank on the economics of extractive industries here