The contribution of non-renewable natural resources to economic development : the case of copper in Zambia

This thesis focuses on three aspects of long-run planning for mineral-dependent economies: (i) modelling mineral depletion for optimal capital accumulation; (ii) specification and estimation of a mining cost function and a non-mining production function; and (iii) measurement of capital and natural...

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Main Author: Panaĭotov, Todor
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/21257