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5 results foundAuthor: Partnership Africa Canada Title: Diamonds and Clubs: The Militarized Control of Diamonds and Power in Zimbabwe Summary: This report exposes some of the players who have been at the forefront of the plunder of diamonds in Chiadzwa, Marange. It shows how the Chiadzwa diamonds are fuelling the ongoing political conflict in the region. Details: Ottawa: Partnership Africa Canada, 2010. 29p. Source: Internet Resource Year: 2010 Country: Zimbabwe URL: Shelf Number: 119548 Keywords: Diamond SmugglingIllegal TradeViolence |
Author: Oomes, Nienke Title: Diamond Smuggling and Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa Summary: This paper provides an overview of diamond mining in sub-Saharan African countries, and explores the reasons for substantial differences in their tax rates and fiscal revenues from the sector, which mainly arise from differences in the incentives for smuggling. In a theoretical model, we show that optimal diamond tax rates increase with the degree of competition among diamond buyers, as well as with the corporate share of diamond production, which is confirmed by the data. We then discuss policies to increase revenue, including by enhancing mining productivity, stimulating the exploration of new areas, reducing barriers to entry, and attracting investment into value-adding downstream operations. Details: Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2003. 23p. Source: Internet Resource; IMP Working Paper; WP/03/167 Year: 2003 Country: Africa URL: Shelf Number: 119558 Keywords: Diamond SmugglingTax Evasion |
Author: Partnership Africa Canada Title: Zimbabwe, Diamonds and the Wrong Side of History Summary: This report describes the role of diamonds in the Zimbabwean economy and their place in the country’s increasingly repressive governance. It describes growing evidence of smuggling, the militarization of diamond resources and the killing of dozens of unarmed diamond diggers by the police and armed forces of Zimbabwe. The report describes the lacklustre role in all of this played by the Kimberley Process, the multilateral body designed to regulate the world’s trade in rough diamonds, but whose members lack the initiative and the will required to investigate smuggling and non compliance, and who lack the courage required to denounce gross human rights violations in the diamond industry. The health of the world’s diamond market comes down to consumer choice. To maintain customer confidence, the onus is on the world’s diamond industry and the Kimberley Process to demonstrate beyond doubt that the diamonds it certifies are clean, and that questionable Zimbabwean goods are not tainting the wider world of diamonds. The report concludes with strong recommendations to the United Nations Security Council, the governments of Zimbabwe and South Africa, and the Kimberley Process. Our hope is that this report will strengthen the hand of Zimbabwe’s new Unity Government, safeguard human rights and put some backbone into the Kimberley Process. Details: Ottawa: Partnership Africa Canada, 2009. 16p. Source: Internet Resource: Occasional Paper # 18: Accessed November 8, 2011 at: http://www.pacweb.org/Documents/diamonds_KP/18_Zimbabwe-Diamonds_March09-Eng.pdf Year: 2009 Country: Zimbabwe URL: http://www.pacweb.org/Documents/diamonds_KP/18_Zimbabwe-Diamonds_March09-Eng.pdf Shelf Number: 123260 Keywords: Diamond SmugglingDiamonds (Zimbabwe)Natural Resources |
Author: Partnership Africa Canada Title: Diamonds Without Borders: An Assessment of the Challenges of Implementing and Enforcing the KP Certification Scheme Summary: In 2010, Israel (the Chair of the KPCS) prioritized strengthening KPCS efforts to combat diamond smuggling. In support of this priority, PAC worked with Israel, Canada and the United States to conduct multi-stakeholder consultations in four West African countries and to organize an Enforcement Seminar during the KPCS Intersessional in Tel Aviv (June 2010). The results of these activities can be found in this report on diamond smuggling, which was presented to the KPCS Plenary in November 2010. Details: Ottawa: Partnership Africa Canada, 2010. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 8, 2011 at: http://www.pacweb.org/Documents/diamonds_KP/Diamonds_Without_borders-Nov2010_Eng.pdf Year: 2010 Country: Africa URL: http://www.pacweb.org/Documents/diamonds_KP/Diamonds_Without_borders-Nov2010_Eng.pdf Shelf Number: 123261 Keywords: Diamond SmugglingNatural Resources |
Author: Partnership Africa Canada Title: Triple Jeopardy: Triplicate Forms and Triple Borders: Controlling Diamond Exports from Guyana Summary: South America's second oldest diamond producer, Guyana has year after year been quietly producing tens and often hundreds of thousands of small, clear, high-quality diamonds for most of the 20th century. Guyana signed on to the Kimberley Process on December 13, 2002, putting in place a system designed to ensure that the diamonds exported from Guyana are all legally produced and declared in Guyana. The country has a number of natural advantages that have helped this effort. Guyana is relatively small by South American standards, with transportation routes and administrative capacity all centred on the capital, Georgetown. Mining has historically been, and remains one of the country's key industries, with the result that the Guyana government takes mining regulation seriously. The government agency in charge of mining, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is an autonomous public corporation, able to raise its own funds, hire its own staff and design and implement its own regulatory regimes. An institutional descendent of the old Geological Survey of British Guiana, the GGMC has inherited and preserved many of the better aspects of the British civil service tradition. The current GGMC Commissioner, Brindley H. Robeson Benn, appears to be an able and effective administrator, determined to bring Guyana's diamond fields under his control. In this effort he has the backing of Guyana's Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds. Details: Ottawa: Partnership Africa Canada, 2006. Source: Internet Resource: Occasional paper (Diamonds and Human Security Project), no. 14., 2006: Accessed August 7, 2017 at: http://dspace.africaportal.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/26088/1/Triple%20Jeopardy%20-%20Triplicate%20Forms%20and%20Triple%20Borders%20-%20Controlling%20Diamond%20Exports%20from%20Guyana.pdf?1 Year: 2006 Country: Guyana URL: http://dspace.africaportal.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/26088/1/Triple%20Jeopardy%20-%20Triplicate%20Forms%20and%20Triple%20Borders%20-%20Controlling%20Diamond%20Exports%20from%20Guyana.pdf?1 Shelf Number: 146750 Keywords: Blood DiamondsDiamond MiningDiamond SmugglingDiamondsPrecious Minerals |