Developing a Plan for the Planet


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The scale of the global issues we are facing today: unsustainable population growth; climate change; energy supplies; water and food supplies; planet sustainability and biodiversity; extreme poverty; global health; universal education; conflict management and financing sustainability are more daunting than ever. Nevertheless these issues must be addressed-in a coordinated, global manner. That's why the authors of Developing a Plan for the Planet outline an approach to achieving change which can be adopted and implemented at every level - government, business, community and as an individual.







Diamonds, Dispossession & Democracy in Botswana


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Kenneth Good was professor of politics at the University of Botswana when he was expelled from the country. Here, he argues that Botswana's diamonds should be used to diversify the economy and reduce poverty. He also examines the dispossesion of the Bushmen, and the government's grip on power.




Botswana


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Botswana is experiencing a significant slowdown from a diamond market contraction in 2023–24. Inflation has declined sharply since the peak of mid-2022 and returned to the central bank’s objective range, where it is expected to remain in the medium term. The authorities plan a fiscal expansion in FY2024 followed by two years of substantial adjustment to reach a fiscal surplus by FY2026. The external position should soften over the medium term, with FX reserves decreasing to 5 months of imports. The financial sector remains sound and stable despite the economic downturn.




Botswana's Diamonds


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This title covers all aspects of the diamond industry in Botswana, starting with early prospecting, evaluation, mining, sorting, valuation, polishing, cutting, and Botswana Diamond Jewellery. In fact the complete Botswana Diamond Pipeline is covered.




Minerals Yearbook


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This volume, covering metals and minerals, contains chapters on approximately 90 commodities. In addition, this volume has chapters on mining and quarrying trends and on statistical surveying methods used by Minerals Information, plus a statistical summary.




The Rise and Fall of Diamonds


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The Global Diamond Industry


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The Global Diamond Industry: Economics and Development brings together a collection of papers covering various aspects of the diamond industry including economics, law, history, sociology and development across two volumes.




The Heart of the Matter


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How diamonds have been the cause of widespread death, misery, & destruction for almost a decade in the West African country of Sierra Leone. Through the 1990s, Sierra Leone's rebel war became a tragedy of major humanitarian, political & historic proportions, but the story goes back 60 years, to the discovery of the diamonds. The diamond mining sector has become influenced by organized crime & by the smuggling not just of diamonds, but of guns & drugs, & by vast sums of money in search of a laundry. No peace agree. would be sustainable until the problems of mining & selling diamonds had been addressed, both inside Sierra Leone & internationally. Tables.




Minerals Yearbook, 2008, V. 1, Metals and Minerals


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Data are provided for more than 80 minerals and materials, along with a presentation of survey methods, summary statistics for domestic nonfuel minerals, and trends in mining and quarrying in the metals and industrial minerals industry in the United States.Virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important to the U.S. economy are discussed. Background information enables analysis of the data, and covers production, consumption, prices, foreign trade, a world review, and an overall outlook.