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Mining and Socio-Economic Development in the Developing World
By Alistair Sharp-Paul
The public standing of mines in developing countries requires their benefits to flow at both national and local community level. As well, there is pressure on mining companies (and their financiers, insurers and shareholders) to catalyse socio-economic development across sectoral boundaries and, especially, beyond mine closure.
That is the international view. But how much of an issue is this in the place? Might it be that in the developing world, the interface with a resource project is not as westerners see it? Maybe villagers translate their relationship with a new mine or oilfield into their own cultural idiom—to be exploited while it lasts, then something to get over and do without when it ends? Certainly this happens, if only by default.
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