Publications
Publications
A Touch of Gold: Gold mining’s importance to lower-income countries
Jill Leyland - Economic Adviser to the World Gold Council
The World Gold Council’s study ‘A Glittering Future? Gold mining’s importance to sub- Saharan Africa and Heavily Indebted Poor Countries’, published in 1999, was a pioneering work which had a major impact on perceptions held of the gold industry by policy-makers, the media and the public.
In particular, the study’s findings played a part in encouraging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to revalue, rather than sell, a portion of its gold reserves for the purposes of debt-relief. This was because it showed that sales of gold by the IMF might very well disadvantage some of the poor countries that the IMF was trying to help.
Resource Endowment Guide
The Challenge of Mineral Wealth: using resource endowments to foster sustainable development. April 2006.
