African mining shifting from transactions to partnerships: Tony Blair

• Autores: Laura Syrett
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 570, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Marzo)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • "In the extractive industries, and in the mining sector particularly, there is a move from transactions to relationships," [Tony Blair] told delegates.

    "The quality of government is the biggest differentiator between success and failure - in Africa above all," Blair said, explaining that national governments frequently fall victim to volatility in the commodities sector.

    "A lot of what China has brought into Africa has done a lot of good," he said, adding that although there were problems in some areas, there had been several billion US dollars of Chinese money invested in Africa.