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Mozambique’s resource boom - a country at a crossroads?

Baroness Northover discusses sustainable mining with Enoque Vicente, Sustainability Manager at Vale. Picture: Sophie Newman/DFID

Flying into Tete in Northern Mozambique last week, I could see first-hand the evidence of Mozambique’s resource boom. Most of my fellow passengers were mining engineers or the like, heading for the Brazilian mining company Vale’s huge open-cast mine in …

What economics can (and can't) tell us, part 1: carbon taxes

On my first day as a civil servant, my new boss asked, “So, Hannah, what would you say are the three key concepts in economics?”  I was tongue-tied – it felt like a trick question. What three concepts could I …