The relationship between mining and development has long been debated with perspectives on mining’s role in national development relatively polarised. The debate is between two opposing sides; on the one hand are the mining industry, mining advocates and many international institutions, including the World Bank Group, who continue to advocate mining as a national development strategy suggesting that it creates employment, provides taxation revenues for developing country governments and also creates opportunities for value addition and making a direct contribution to development through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of mining companies (Littlewood, 2014).
However, in counterpoint to these claims there is a well development body of critical
However, in counterpoint to these claims there is a well development body of critical