Chapter 3 Foreign mining corporations on trial
By the 2010s, the view that state mismanagement and inefficiencies underlay the Congo’s economic malaise had become so commonplace as to permeate nearly all thinking about development in the country. The aim of this chapter is to challenge this line of thinking and question the Consensus wisdom of m...
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| description | By the 2010s, the view that state mismanagement and inefficiencies underlay the Congo’s economic malaise had become so commonplace as to permeate nearly all thinking about development in the country. The aim of this chapter is to challenge this line of thinking and question the Consensus wisdom of moving from domestic-owned to foreign-owned industrial mining based on a belief in the superior efficiency of the latter. By charting the rise and fall of Belgian-owned SOMINKI (1976-1997) and Canadian-owned Banro (1995-2019) in eastern Congo, its main line of argument is that foreign-owned and managed mining corporations are no less vulnerable to mismanagement, firm inefficiencies, and volatile prices than their state-owned counterparts. This included, in the case of Banro, rent-seeking behaviour, redirecting value to overseas directors and shareholders at the expense of productive capacity and to the detriment of the Congolese state and Congolese firms and labour. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1224662025-01-11T04:26:20Z Chapter 3 Foreign mining corporations on trial Radley, Ben Congo, South Kivu, mining, industrialization, development, corporations, financialization, gold By the 2010s, the view that state mismanagement and inefficiencies underlay the Congo’s economic malaise had become so commonplace as to permeate nearly all thinking about development in the country. The aim of this chapter is to challenge this line of thinking and question the Consensus wisdom of moving from domestic-owned to foreign-owned industrial mining based on a belief in the superior efficiency of the latter. By charting the rise and fall of Belgian-owned SOMINKI (1976-1997) and Canadian-owned Banro (1995-2019) in eastern Congo, its main line of argument is that foreign-owned and managed mining corporations are no less vulnerable to mismanagement, firm inefficiencies, and volatile prices than their state-owned counterparts. This included, in the case of Banro, rent-seeking behaviour, redirecting value to overseas directors and shareholders at the expense of productive capacity and to the detriment of the Congolese state and Congolese firms and labour. 2023-11-18T04:00:40Z 2023-11-18T04:00:40Z 2023-11-17T13:59:33Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85208 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122466 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85208/1/Chapter%203.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85208/1/Chapter%203.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780192849052.003.0003 10.1093/oso/9780192849052.003.0003 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 Disrupted Development in the Congo University of Bath 84e52f9c-d514-4584-b971-0adf2e420297 22 Oxford open access |
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