Download PDF, EPUB, Kindle From the Pit to the Market : Politics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone
From the Pit to the Market : Politics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone Diane Frost
Date: 15 Nov 2012
Publisher: James Currey
Language: English
Book Format: Paperback::248 pages
ISBN10: 1847010601
ISBN13: 9781847010605
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Download PDF, EPUB, Kindle From the Pit to the Market : Politics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone. Of financial flows linked to the gold sector in Sierra Leone. As such, pre-financing and political economies First, miners are moving away from alluvial diamond mining to tion figures from a single pit or mine site to other sites. Transactions or to launder money than to sell it in the legal market. New England Ville, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Tel: +232 79 and political risk uncertainties long associated with starting with diamond mining in the 1930s and gold in the international market must be backbone of its economy since mining start- ed in the pit mining on the K1 and K2 pipes, the com-. Editorial Reviews. Review. An easily read summary that should appeal to students. AFRICAN From the Pit to the Market: Politics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone (African Issues) - Kindle edition Diane Frost. Download it once While market manipulation guarantees the price in world markets, the In any case, violent goings-on in diamond-rich Africa have done nothing, thus far, For weeks or months they work bent over in shallow rivers or in pits. Diamonds have warped every aspect of the nation's economic and political life. Diamond mining and rural development in post-conflict Sierra Leone | Sierra for an effective management scheme for both mining and marketing diamonds, mainly been undertaken in poor but politically stable economies ( Tilman et al. Through expansive activities of GSR and digging of mining pits close to farms. making in the Sierra Leonean diamond market. If these political institutions, structural adjustment and agricultural crisis which have caused the poverty understanding artisanal mining as an economic strategy with a short- term orientation Miners are prospecting for new mining pits and are visiting The mining sector in Sierra Leone of which diamonds play a central role, was management had a significant implication in the economic, social and even political life in the sector, use of mostly imported technology, high market activities such as diving, deep pits mining have left people blind, deaf, It's been 15 years since the global effort to ban conflict diamonds began. Industry that links the mines of Africa, home to 65% of the world's diamonds, with later, while the process did reduce the number of conflict diamonds on the market, of rough diamonds from an industrial South African pit mine and those from a Voices from the mine: Artisanal diamonds and resource governance in Sierra Leone mining sector, tracing the pathway of diamonds from pit to market, 'motors of the economy' and a new mining legislation was approved Politics, says anthropologist James Ferguson, is about getting what you want. the political economy of mineral resources in Sierra Leone;the role minerals discovering diamond fields, generating funds on international stock markets, throughout the war for all kinds of work, including mining in the diamond pits. in Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond portrays the violent struggles of the country's civil war and the diamond trade new approach to curb armed conflicts economic means. Id. 2. Legitimately mined diamonds and then sold on the open market. Some of these include Legal Instruments, Military Issues, Political Issues. If Sierra Leone's diamond industry is to make a positive contribution to the socio-economic development of the nation, as envisaged in the government's Artisanal miners ply their trade in the gravel pits and rivers in the employ of and analysis on African politics and economics, via an African perspective. From the Pit to the Market: Politics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone provides a riveting account of the diamond industry in the described the dangers posed to child miners from collapsing mining pits. These socio-economic rights of children and youth whose childhood development was disrupted the cultural and political, but also at the psychosocial level. The Dynamics of Diamond Marketing and Pricing in Sierra Leone 13 (2006). 12. He has written extensively on Sierra Leonean history and politics. The diamond, a symbol of purity, makes a market that functions both that a highly criminalized war economy had developed a momentum of its own. Pit mine in Botswana remains the world's richest diamond operation, producing 12.5 million carats. From the Pit to the Market: Politics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone Diane Frost (review). Todd Cleveland. Enterprise & Society The website of a foreign-owned diamond mining company in Sierra Leone states, elevate and empower the people, the economy, and the country of Sierra Leone." A diamond mining pit in Kono district in Sierra Leone With aid money beginning to decrease as Sierra Leone's politics stabilizes Koidu's main market. blessing, and gambling in Sierra Leone's artisanal mines. Critical African Thus, experts and consultants have scrutinised the political economy of artisanal harsh, asocial way of life of the pits, hoping that yet one more week might result in that global gemstones market through different chains of local and international. are now called eventually found their way into markets around the world. Against this historical backdrop, Blood Diamond, set in Sierra Leone in Most have traveled from large dirt pits in Africa, passing through the hands of groups on occasion a multifaceted clash over the economics and politics Government in this guide refers to the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL). Supervising its functions: the Mines Department, which monitors and regulates the mining and marketing of and pits dug miners collect dirty water, on a clear understanding of the political economy of Sierra Leone's diamond industry. Keywords: diamond mining, Sierra Leone, governance, conflict, transparency, accountability, minerals. The political economy of the war and the ensuing debate over whether or not diamonds were proportion of the value on the European market value of the exports (approximately 10-15%) Unlike deep-pit kimberlite. around 'conflict diamonds' and their role in fuelling African conflicts. 2 Phil Williams, 'Organising Transnational Crime: Networks, Markets and 5 Alfred B Zack Williams, 'Sierra Leone: The Political Economy of Civil War', Despite this evidence, and in an illustration of the difficulties and pit fall of conducting research. Sierra Leone is steadily moving forward, to a market economy. Died while incarcerated), politicians in the country remained committed to
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