Author: IBP USAPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1438700083
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Afghanistan Mineral & Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information
Afghanistan Mineral & Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Regulations
Author: IBP USAPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1438700083
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Afghanistan Mineral & Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information
Industrial-scale Looting of Afghanistan's Mineral Resources
Author: William A. ByrdPublisher:
ISBN: 9781601276575
Category : Corruption
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Afghanistan is well endowed with mineral resources. In addition to significant oil and gas reserves in the north (not discussed in this report) and a few mega-resources (Aynak copper and Hajigak iron, also not covered), there are numerous medium-sized and smaller deposits of minerals such as precious gemstones (notably emeralds and rubies), gold, silver, coal, chromite, marble, granite, talc, and nephrite. Afghanistan is uniquely endowed with reserves of lapis lazuli, a semiprecious colored stone considered the country's signature mineral. Artisanal exploitation of small, scattered mineral resources typically has occurred on an informal basis. Artisanal extraction is not a focus of this report. Though the mega-resources remain untapped, mineral extraction from medium-sized and smaller mines has burgeoned in recent years and is occurring at what can appropriately be called an industrial scale. Unfortunately, it is generating only negligible taxes and royalties for the Afghan government, largely negating any benefits for national development. Moreover, such resource exploitation benefits and strengthens the power of warlords, corrupts the government and undermines governance, partly funds the Taliban and reportedly ISIS as well, and fuels both local conflicts and the wider insurgency.
Mines and Mineral Occurrences of Afghanistan
Author: James D. BlissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Mineral Resources of Afghanistan
Author: Afghanistan. Geological and Mineral SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Afghanistan Mineral & Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Regulations
Author: IBP, Inc.Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1514504707
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Afghanistan Mineral, Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide - Strategic Information and Regulations
Geology and Mineral Resources of Afghanistan
Author: Afghanistan. Department of Geological SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Industrial-Scale Looting of Afghanistan's Mineral Resources
Author: William A. ByrdManufacturing Consent
Author: Edward S. HermanPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307801624
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A "compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions" (The New York Times Book Review) due to the underlying economics of publishing—from famed scholars Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. With a new introduction. In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.
Gemstones of Afghanistan
Author: Gary W. BowersoxPublisher: GeoVision, Inc.
ISBN: 9780945005193
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A richly illustrated volume directed to gemologists and serious gem collectors.
Author: A. J. Benham