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Alexandra Readhead explores how and why developing country governments need to confront tax base erosion and profit shifting in the mining sector.

ASM is a complex economic sector with implications on economic growth, and social and environmental impacts, on rural poor communities.

While conducting a Mining Policy Framework assessment in Ecuador, we were introduced to Catering Las Peñas, a catering company established in the mining camp of Lundin Gold’s Fruta del Norte gold mining project. In a country where large scale mining is beginning to develop, local content policies are beginning to benefit local businesses and communities.

Mining companies seeking to understand their responsibilities to protect biodiversity have a new tool: an online inventory of global offset policies.

IIED's ASM dialogues program enables a wide range of stakeholders to collaborate to help transform ASM into an engine of local sustainable development.