Projects

Infrastructure and Linkages + Extractive Industries


The Energy Sector and the Sustainable Development Goals

Additional Tags: Research, Climate Change

The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda poses a unique and critical challenge to the energy sector: how to scale access to clean energy to power sustainable, economic development for a growing population, while simultaneously decarbonizing global energy supply. Expanding access to clean energy will play a crucial role in achieving nearly every one of the Sustainable… read more

Leveraging Mining-Related Infrastructure Investments for Development (Rails, Port, Power, Water and ICT)

Additional Tags: Research

With the support of the World Bank and the Australian Government, CCSI has been exploring regulatory, operational and commercial models to leverage mining-related infrastructure for broader development needs.

Handbook on Measuring Employment from Extractive Industry Investments

Additional Tags: Resources and Tools

CCSI prepared a report on measuring employment from extractive industry investments that outlines two modeling techniques used to estimate employment multipliers: 1) The input-output (IO) model, and 2) The computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The handbook explains the advantages, disadvantages, necessary inputs, and results associated with each model.

Employment from Mining and Investments in Land for Agriculture

The employment potential of investments in extractive industry projects and land acquisitions for agriculture is often touted both by governments and by companies in support of investor-friendly policies and large-scale investments in natural resources. CCSI is examining how job numbers are calculated, which factors influence job creation, and the quality and sustainability of these jobs, as well as whether job creation generated from these investments is net positive.

Conceptualizing Economic Linkages to the Resource Sector

Additional Tags: Research

GIZ has been working with CCSI to develop research and training materials around economic linkages to the resource sector.

The Mine of the Future

Additional Tags: Research

CCSI, IISD and Engineers Without Borders researched the technological innovations in mining that are being developed, assessing when these technologies could be rolled out, and quantifying their impact on local employment and procurement and how local content policies should adapt.

Downstream Beneficiation of Extractive Resources

Additional Tags: Research

This research looks at the economic prerequisites that attract first degree downstream beneficiation industries, such as steel mills, and the extent to which these industries have contributed to further domestic linkages in the past, and assesses whether it makes sense to provide large incentives for these investments.

Fostering Knowledge and Technology Spillovers of Extractive Industry Investments

Additional Tags: Research

This research project assesses the channels through which knowledge and technology can be transferred and, based on successful country case studies, provides recommendations on how governments can enhance technological spillovers in oil, gas, and mining.