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...An economic recovery in the past two years led by agriculture and mining investment has boosted Mnangagwa’s regime....
...Chinese companies have poured billions of dollars into Indonesia’s metals and mining industry, particularly nickel, which is vital to electric vehicle batteries....
...Petro’s previous coalition in congress fell apart as he struggled to pass a health reform bill that would drastically increase the state’s role in healthcare....
...Insecurity and the stalled reforms have hit economic activity, including in the crucial mining sector....
...Between the DRC government, mining companies, their end customers and NGOs, there is constant finger pointing over who is responsible for the failure to reform and safeguard artisanal mining....
...This US mining company has three major concessions in Arizona, Wyoming and Nevada, rich in rare earths such as allanite, neodymium, praseodymium and scandium, which are used in the clean tech and defence...
...The list is dominated by Chinese investors and includes the issuance of dozens of licences for lithium mining and exploration....
...International dollars have largely gone to the mining sector instead of high-tech manufacturing or other areas. “Before politics Widodo managed factories....
...He pointed to a 2019 decision to cancel mining contracts such as those of China’s Shandong Iron & Steel Company and US-owned Sierra Leone Mining Company, both of which operate large iron concessions, in...
...The lithium plan needs approval in congress, where Boric lacks a majority and has already suffered a major defeat on tax reform....
...Ocampo successfully launched a tax reform last November, which increased levies on wealthier Colombians and on oil and mining....
...Groups are seeking political reforms and soft sentencing in exchange for laying down arms....
...Republican senator Wendy Rogers has introduced a bill proposing to make bitcoin legal tender in her state of Arizona....
...“These are very tricky and politically difficult reforms but to me they are essential.” The impact of such a shortfall is acute for farmers....
...Instability in Lesotho has at times spread beyond its borders, with politically connected gangs from the country linked to illegal gold mining in South Africa....
...Yet it came at a steep price to their principles: a return, albeit temporary, to coal mining and nuclear power, and begging trips to Qatar and Saudi Arabia for liquid natural gas....
...A fragile German government coalition risks fracturing over plans to ban gas boilers....
...The FT has spent many years fighting such costly cases, most recently defending itself and journalist Tom Burgis against the Kazakh mining group ENRC....
...During his campaign, Petro, a guerrilla fighter in his youth, pledged to halt opencast mining and new oil and gas exploration contracts alongside a number of progressive reforms, such as funding universal...
...Others may view it as a pragmatic effort to hold together a valuable but fragile business coalition, or simply to ensure legal compliance....
...Ambassadors have also been trying to seal the deal on the union’s ninth package of sanctions, which will include a ban on fresh mining investment in Russia as well as export controls aimed at interrupting...
...He also says that without reforms to permitting processes in the US, projects would be vulnerable to the sort of legal and bureaucratic hurdles that regularly derail other large-scale energy projects....
...Boric’s leftwing coalition had been banking on the new constitution to introduce a progressive reform agenda across tax, pensions and social welfare....
...Gabriel Boric, Chile’s 36-year-old president whose leftwing coalition has championed the reform process, has called for unity....
...Trade unions, weakened by the reforms of the Thatcher government in the 1980s and falling membership, found themselves unable to bid up wage levels....
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