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  Shell: use your profits to clean up your mess - report on how Shell should fund local solutions for environmental and social destruction caused by its projects

  Friends of the Earth International, 2007

  This report presents nine cases of socially and environmentally problematic projects in which Shell is involved. Each case contains concrete proposals and demands detailing how these problems can be addressed.
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  The current state of diamond mining in the Mano River basin and the use of diamonds as a tool for peacebuilding and development

  International Alert, 2006

  This report describes the current state of the diamond industry in West Africa, providing both an overview of the sub-region and detailed analysis of countries including Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
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  Mining in the Philippines: concerns and conflicts

  World Conservation Union, 2007

  This report explores the effects of mining in the Philippines.
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  A rich seam: who benefits from rising commodity prices?

  Christian Aid, 2007

  Despite spectacular rises in the prices of commodity prices in oil, copper and gold, developing countries are scarcely benefiting from the rise in prices. This report reveals that mining company profits have risen eight times from 2002- 2005, while many of the developing countries from which the commodities are exported receive very little in either tax or royalties.
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  The lost world: diamond mining and smuggling in Venezuela

  Partnership Africa Canada, 2006

  This report looks at illicit diamond mining in Venezuela. The report find that though Venezuela annually produces an estimated 150,000 carats of diamonds, it has officially exported none since January 2005.
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  Monitoring artisanal diamond mines: a workshop report

  Global Witness, 2006

  This report summarises learning from a workshop held in Sierra Leone on experiences gained from monitoring artisanal diamond mining in Sierra Leone.
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  Does oil corrupt?: evidence from a natural experiment in West Africa

  ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2006

  This paper is an attempt to deepen knowledge on the relationships between natural resources and corruption. Specifically, the paper attempts to understand whether there is a causal relationship from natural resource abundance to corruption. The paper analyses the case of São Tomé and Príncipe.
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  Operation Kissonde: the diamonds of humiliation and misery

  Cuango.net, 2006

  This report describes abuses by security companies employed by diamond firms in Cuango, Angola, including killings, beatings, sexual abuse and torture.The report documents how, Cuango, in Lunda-Norte province, northeast Angola, is a magnet for migrant workers seeking opportunities in prohibited artisan diamond mining and is home to three joint-venture diamond-mining enterprises.
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  Killing kimberley?: conflict diamonds and paper tigers

  Partnership Africa Canada, 2006

  This report describes the current problems facing the Kimberley Process (KP), and the remedial action that is required if governments and industry are serious about ending conflict diamonds.
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  Benefit streams from mining in Tanzania: case studies from Geita and Mererani

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006

  This report looks at the management of social and economic benefit streams in two mining communities in northern Tanzania; Geita and Mererani. Case studies within the report show that at the local level, poor local governance has opened up for corruption in benefit streams management.

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