TY  - BOOK
ED  - International Finance Corporation.
ED  - International Finance Corporation.
TI  - Sector Licensing Studies: Mining Sector
T2  - Mining, Oil and Gas
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Access to Information
KW  - Administrative Procedures
KW  - Coal
KW  - Debt Markets
KW  - Decision Making
KW  - Developed Countries
KW  - Economic Development
KW  - Emerging Markets
KW  - Environment
KW  - Environmental Economics & Policies
KW  - Exchange Rates
KW  - Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
KW  - Finance and Financial Sector Development
KW  - Foreign Direct Investment
KW  - Geothermal Energy
KW  - Industry
KW  - Investment Climate
KW  - Mineral Wealth
KW  - Minerals
KW  - Minerals Sector
KW  - Mining Sector
KW  - Natural Resources
KW  - Private Sector Development
KW  - Privatization
KW  - Property Rights
KW  - Public Hearings
KW  - Public Lands
KW  - Resource-Rich Countries
KW  - Sanitation and Sewerage
KW  - Streams
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Unemployment
KW  - Wages
KW  - Water Supply and Sanitation
N2  - This report is intended to provide guidance on best practices in mining licensing, based on examples from low, middle and high income countries in Africa, Asia, North America, and South America. It is not a 'how-to guide' or a licensing implementation toolkit, but rather identifies certain common features of successful mining licensing regimes worldwide that other national or sub-national jurisdictions might usefully incorporate in new mining laws and regulations or revisions or existing ones. The case studies and other examples of good and bad practice are intended to provide a cross-section by geography and by income level, and they demonstrate that the prevalence of good and bad practices is not simply a function of income level. Tanzania, one of the poorest countries in the world, has in many respects a better licensing regime than either South Africa or the U.S. State of Wisconsin. In considering these complex issues, it has proven difficult to confine the discussion purely to questions of licensing. Discussion of licensing invariably invokes reference to overall policy and investment climate issues, environmental protection, labor law, taxation, national and sub-national jurisdiction, land tenure, and much more. This report makes no attempt to address all of these in detail but refers to them in reference to their interactions with and effect on, licensing itself. Far more detailed research on mineral policy, taxation, investment climate, and other issues has been carried out, some of it referred to in this report and cited in the footnotes and bibliography
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/27787
ER  -