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Resource nationalism and local content in Tanzania: Experiences from mining and consequences for the petroleum sector

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dc.creator Kinyondo, Abel
dc.creator Lange, Siri
dc.date 2018-04-02T14:18:59Z
dc.date 2018-04-02T14:18:59Z
dc.date 2016
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-11T08:38:46Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-11T08:38:46Z
dc.identifier Siri, L. and Kinyondo, A. (2016) “Resource nationalism and local content in Tanzania: Experiences from mining and consequences for the petroleum sector”. The Extractive Industries and Society. 3(4) pp. 1095 - 1104.
dc.identifier 2214-790X
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4653
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4653
dc.description Many resource-rich African countries have recently drafted local content policies for their petroleum sector. Using Tanzania as an example, this paper argues that previous experiences in the extractive industries are a central factor for public sentiments and debates on resource nationalism and local content in the petroleum sector. The paper focuses on the shifting local content polices in the mining sector over the last two decades and presents some of the initiatives that mining companies have taken to increase the local content. The 2010 Mining Act has weak and unbinding requirements on local content. National statistics show that there has been no increase in the local purchase of goods and services and that the percentage of expats in the sector has been relatively stable over the years. As in other African countries, local content is subject to elite capture and patronage, but support to cooperatives is one way of involving local communities in a positive manner. Discontent with the contribution of mining to the national economy entailed a heated debate on local content policies for the petroleum sector, but the legislation that were put in place in 2015 ended up being relatively ‘soft’, due to the fear of losing investors.
dc.language en
dc.publisher The Extractive Industries and Society
dc.relation 3;4
dc.title Resource nationalism and local content in Tanzania: Experiences from mining and consequences for the petroleum sector
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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