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The gender debate is gaining momentum around the world - but the mining sector has been behind the curve. 

Highgrade Media, alongside gender-equality champions The German Development Agency GIZ and The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are launching a unique interview series on gender equality in mining that is set…

Mineral producing countries aspire to climb the value adding ladder. Few, however, have truly succeeded.

How can resource economies move into industrialisation and beyond? Nowhere is the question more puzzling than in Africa.

Renowned economist Carlos Lopes has the answer.

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Highgrade Team

The World Bank advocates the poverty-reducing potential of extractive industries. As we contemplate a future beyond fossil fuels, they are now having to adapt.

Christopher Sheldon leads the extractives work at the World Bank. We sit down to discuss the challenges and opportunities that resource nations face as part of the…

Industrialisation and the Extractives | HIGHGRADE Talks with Olle Östensson

Developing economic linkages is often proposed as the way to break the mining enclave and diversify resource economies. But can they add real value to resource nations?

We have a frank discussion with industry expert Olle Östensson about all types of linkages and the always sensitive question of industrialisation.…

RAW Talks, the acclaimed interview series on natural resources, is reaching for new heights.

Since launching more than two years ago, we've published in-depth interviews with dozens of innovative thinkers and practitioners, sharing their ideas and experience in the field of resource policy and economics.

During this time, we've offered higher quality insights, produced higher volumes of material, and reached higher number of people than ever before.

To reflect this…

Welcome to RAW Talks!

For those of you who have not yet heard, RAW Talks is a new interview series that examines extractives-led development.

Straightforward, modern and without bias, our Talks provide insight and ideas from innovative thinkers and practitioners in the field of resource policy and…