## Mining Revenues and Inclusive Development in Guinea

_IMF Working Papers, April 29, 2023_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Alejandro Badel, Rachel Fredman Lyngaas
- Published: April 29, 2023
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400240621.001

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### Research question and methodology
- What are the potential benefits of increasing the taxation of a foreign extractive sector?
- Case study: Guinea.
- Method: multi-sector macro-inequality model with heterogeneous agents.
- Quantifies the long-run equilibrium impact of additional taxation when proceeds are invested in:
  - human capital,
  - inclusive infrastructure,
  - social transfers.
- Focus of analysis: GDP, labor formalization, poverty rates, Gini coefficients, rural/urban inequality, and sectoral reallocation.

### Key findings
- The three forms of investment (human capital, inclusive infrastructure, social transfers) are complementary.
- Infrastructure investments:
  - favor formal production in the urban area.
- Growth and government transfers:
  - boost the demand for food.
- Combined effects:
  - help support the rate of return to education,
  - protect job formalization through higher wages and prices of informal goods.
- Education policy:
  - boosts labor supply in rural and urban areas.
- Overall, additional taxation of the foreign extractive sector, when invested across these three channels, yields long-run equilibrium gains across macroeconomic, labor-market, and distributional metrics.

### Policy implications and mechanisms
- Investing increased mining revenues in human capital, inclusive infrastructure, and social transfers can:
  - sustain GDP growth,
  - promote labor formalization (especially via infrastructure-induced formal urban production),
  - reduce poverty through higher demand for food (augmented by transfers and growth),
  - mitigate inequality by supporting returns to education and protecting formal jobs.
- Complementarity across investment types is essential: infrastructure promotes formalization; education increases labor supply and returns; transfers support consumption demand, especially for food, reinforcing rural incomes.

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