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Breaking Ground on Inequality: Small-Scale Mining's Reach and Impact

Breaking Ground on Inequality: Small-Scale Mining's Reach and Impact

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN10: 6208437164
ISBN13: 9786208437169
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Breaking Ground on Inequality: Small-Scale Mining's Reach and Impact explores how small-scale mining intersects with global socioeconomic disparities, impacting contemporary inequality. Persistent disparities exist locally and globally (UN: age, gender, race, ethnicity, migrant status, disability). Oxfam Ghana highlights inequality's disruptive impact. The paper uses a political economy framework to analyze politics/economics in small-scale mining: government policies, power dynamics, market structures, and resource distribution. It uses qualitative methodology, interviews (academics, officials, miners in Ghana), and content analysis to examine how small-scale mining aggravates disparities (resource distribution, opportunities, socioeconomic landscape) and urges academia/policymakers to address these issues. It aims to enrich post-COVID-19 sustainable development discourse, contributing to more equitable systems by foregrounding small-scale mining and inequality.

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