Resources Policy

This research data pertains to in-depth analysis of extractives’ corporate social responsibility [CSR] in North-Western Zambia and its impact on local sustainable development. It relied on case study approach to understand processes and outcomes of CSR investments by sampled mines. The study relied on both primary, secondary, qualitative and quantitative sources of data to triangulate perspectives. The case study explored four dimensions of CSR: how decisions and prioritisation of CSR were made; level of stakeholders’ engagement and participation; appropriateness and viability of performance monitoring and accountability systems of sampled mines on CSR commitments; and outcomes [benefits and costs] to host communities from CSR; and factors underlying associated outcomes.

The data of CPI of US, the federal funds rate, crude oil future price, the nominal effective exchange rate and Dow Jones index and gold price are presented in the table。 Gold price is the closing price of the last trading day of the London market at the end of each month, in dollars per ounce. The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) is the CPI index for all urban consumers (2010=100). The federal funds rate of the United States is analyzed by means of the arithmetic average of all trading days of the month as the monthly value. The price of oil futures is the closing price of the last trading day of the month. The nominal effective exchange rate of the United States is converted to 100 in 2010. Dow Jones index is the Dow Jones industries average index, which is the closing price index of the last trading day of the month. The sample period extends from 01/1984 to 12/2019 of 432 months for a total of 432 observations.

The repository contains the data around artificial ore grade for electrical equipment and electronics. It refers to the maximum material recovery potential, matching data from recycling technology, material composition and inflow-driven data. The article is currently following the last steps of writing. The files are intended to aid the comprension of the article results and foster further research. A grateful salute is given to: the authors of the PROSUM Project, responsible for the inflow-driven data and for the composition estimation; Ongondo et al. for resuming the composition estimations of other works; Awasthi et al for the review on recovery strategies. Furthermore, assistances and feedbacks were recived by the team of BOKU Wien. In particular a grateful salute is fowarded to Haberl, Streeck, Kraussmann, Wiedenhofer.

This file contains data on the 12 largest private copper developers in Chile and the calculations to obtain rent estimates used in the article "Natural resource rent allocation, government quality, and concession design: the case of copper in Chile"

SP = Company's share price TBR = Average primary market T/bill rates BRENT = Brent oil price WTI = West Texas Intermediate price LBRENT = Natural log of Brent price DLBRENT = First Difference of LBRENT PBR = Term for positive changes for BRENT NBR = Term for negative changes for BRENT LWTI = Natural log of WTI DLWTI = First Difference of LWTI PW = Term for positive changes in WTI NW = Term for negative changes in WTI

All raw data for each indicator in Appendix A and the supplementary result in Appendix B for reference.

Real Oil Prices by order UK, Dubai, WTI, Crude January 1980 to June 2017

Our data used in the study

Captures full set of data compiled from sources including IMF Article IV Country Reports, Energy Information Administration, World Development Indicators and the International Country Risk Group (ICRG).

From 2009 to 2018, the international cobalt ore trade data has been de reprocessed.