South African gold mining and local procurement in Tanzania and Ghana

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We examine the extent to which two of Africa's leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement policies to enhance backward linkages from the minerals sector. We assess the impact that evolving legislation in the gold industry has had on industrialization and development in each country. South Africa's gold mining investments in Ghana and Tanzania are used to illustrate policy impact and the state-capital relations that shape policy formulation and implementation. We conclude this study with concrete policy recommendations for host country governments and South African policy makers on how to deepen backward linkages emerging out of South African gold mining operations in each country. We propose that this research forms the beginning of in-depth assessments of the impact of South African mining investment on the continent and its potential role in realizing the minerals-based industrialization agenda of Africa's resource-rich economies.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-714-9
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2019/80

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa ; Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Other Nonrenewable Resources ; Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology ; Industrial Policy
• Subject: gold mining ; industrial policy ; local procurement ; minerals-based industrialization ; Tanzania ; Ghana ; South Africa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Smith, Michael Nassen ; Osborne, Carilee ; Moola, Zunaid ; Turok, Ben
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2019

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2019/714-9
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/211303
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET