International Study Group creator text Ethiopia Economic Commission for Africa 2000 monographic 230p This report on Africa’s mineral development regimes was prepared by the International Study Group (ISG) established in 2007 by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). It analyses African mining from a number of complemenary perspectives, driven by a search for new directions based on the African Mining Vision (AMV) which African leaders adopted in 2009. !e processes which led to this Report started in 2007, at the peak of the expansion in global demand and rise in the prices of minerals and metals before the onset of the global $nancial and economic crisis in 2008. Natural Resources Environment http://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/minerals_and_africa’s_development.pdf http://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/minerals_and_africa’s_development.pdf