Copper Giants: Lessons from State-Owned Mining Companies in the DRC and Zaire
Publisher: Natural Resource Governance Institute
Author(s): Natural Resource Governance Institute
Date: 2015
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance
Countries: Congo (DRC), Zambia
Throughout much of the world, governments have entrusted state-owned enterprises with major responsibilities for developing and managing natural resource extraction projects. In some cases these companies have been effective vehicles for the development and execution of state policy. In others, they have fostered inefficiency, revenue shortfalls and corruption. To examine the governance of state-owned ventures in the mining sector and tools that governments can use to promote effective performance and accountability, the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) commissioned country studies from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, in which NMCs have played a central role in the management of large deposits of copper, cobalt and other minerals.
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