| 来源类型 | Policy Series
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| The Unintended Consequences of U.S. Conflict-Mineral Regulation |
| Dominic Parker
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| 发表日期 | 2018-09-27
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| 出版年 | 2018
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 概述 | While conflict-mineral measures in the Dodd-Frank Act may have reduced militia funding, the evidence suggests that they had the unintended effect of increasing human suffering. |
| 摘要 | Widespread attention to so-called “conflict minerals” has led many consumers to ponder whether the metals contained inside their mobile phones or laptops have fueled civil wars and violence in far-flung places. In the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a principal source of such minerals, armed groups have been prevalent in mining, often controlling the trade in valuable minerals.
Congress passed legislation in 2010 that aimed to ensure purchases of such minerals would not fund violent militias. Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act tried to accomplish this aim by requiring U.S. companies to disclose the provenance of tin, tungsten, and tantalum that they purchased. The policy’s architects hoped that the disclosures would cut off funding to militias who brutalized locals, thereby reducing the suffering of people in affected communities.
In thisPERC Policy Series, economist Dominic Parker summarizes two recent academic studies in which he and coauthors examined the effects of the policy and whether it achieved its aims. While the conflict-mineral measures may have reduced militia funding, the evidence suggests that they had the unintended effect of increasing human suffering. Parker finds that the legislation largely backfired, raising infant mortality in certain villages and also increasing militia violence against civilians. He concludes by briefly examining how alternative approaches could have bolstered human rights and economic opportunities in the eastern Congo.
This paper is part of thePERC Policy Seriesof essays on timely environmental topics, published by the Property and Environment Research Center, a nonprofit research center located in Bozeman, Montana, that explores market solutions to environmental problems. instead of negotiation and cooperation. |
| 主题 | Energy
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| URL | https://www.perc.org/2018/09/27/the-unintended-consequences-of-u-s-conflict-mineral-regulation/
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| 来源智库 | Property and Environment Research Center (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/359848
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