Anglo-American Company

National Exporters’ Association (Asociación de Exportadores, Peru)

Nationalist Democratic Action (Acción Democrática Nacionalista, Bolivia)

African National Congress

National Association of Medium-Scale Miners (Asociación Nacional de Mineros Medianos, Bolivia)

Popular Action (Acción Popular, Peru)

American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana, Peru)

Aborigines Rights Protection Society (Ghana)

artisanal and small-scale mining

African Union

Central Reserve Bank of Peru (Banco Central de Reserva del Perú)

Broken Hill Proprietary

British South Africa Company

Central African Federation

Bolivian Centre for Documentation and Information (Centro de Documentación e Información Bolivia)

chief executive officer

Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries

Research Center of the University of the Pacific (Centro de Investigación de la Universidad del Pacífico, Peru)

National Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia)

Confederation of Bolivian Workers (Central Obrera Boliviana)

Committee for the Defence of National Patrimony (Comité de Defensa del Patrimonio Nacional, Bolivia)

Bolivian Mining Corporation (Corporación Minera de Bolivia)

Mining Company of the South (Compañía Minera del Sur)

National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (Confederación Nacional de Instituciones Empresariales Privadas, Peru)

Cerro de Pasco Mining Company

Convention People’s Party (Ghana)

corporate social responsibility

Unified Confederation of Unionized Peasant Workers of Bolivia (Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia)

development agreement

General Direction of Environmental Issues in Mining (Dirección General de Asuntos Ambientales Mineros, Peru)

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

extractive industry

environmental impact assessment

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Economic Recovery Programme (Ghana)

Effective States and Inclusive Development (Research Centre)

foreign direct investment

National Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Bolivia (Federación Nacional de Cooperativas Mineras de Bolivia, Bolivia)

Farmer Input Support Programme (Zambia)

free, prior, and informed consent

Union Federation of Bolivian Mine Workers (Federación Sindical de Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia)

free trade agreement

gross domestic product

Ghana

Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative

Ghana Revenue Authority

Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces (Gobierno Revolucionario de las Fuerzas Armadas, Peru)

heavily indebted poor countries initiative

International Council on Mining and Metals

International Finance Corporation

international financial institution

General Consumption Tax (Impuesto General a las Ventas, Peru)

International Labour Organization (p.xxi)

1989 Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention of the International Labour Organization

International Monetary Fund

National Institute for Statistics and Informatics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática, Peru)

Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Institute (Instituto Geológico, Minero, y Metalúrgico, Peru)

International Petroleum Company

Institute for Land Reform and Colonization (Instituto de Reforma Agraria y Colonización, IRAC)

Internal Revenue Services (Ghana)

import substitution industrialization

value added tax

Law Association of Zambia

Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (Ghana)

Movement to Socialism (Movimiento al Socialismo, Bolivia)

Ministry of Culture (Ministerio de Cultura, Peru)

Mineral Development Fund (Ghana)

Ministry of Economy and Finance (Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas, Peru)

multi-facility export zone (Zambia)

Ministry of the Environment (Ministerio del Ambiente, Peru)

Ministry of Energy and Mines (Ministerio de Energía y Minas, Peru)

Revolutionary Left Movement (Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria, Bolivia)

Marcona Mining Company

Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (Zambia)

National Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, Bolivia)

Member of Parliament

Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines

National Coalition of NGOs in Mining (Ghana)

National Democratic Congress (Ghana)

National Development Planning Commission (Ghana)

New Republican Force (Nueva Fuerza Republicana, Bolivia)

non-governmental organization

National Liberation Movement (Ghana) (p.xxii)

New Patriotic Party (Ghana)

National Redemption Council (Ghana)

Northern Territories (Ghana)

Organization of American States

Office of Administration of Stool Lands (Ghana)

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

Organism for Environmental Evaluation and Fiscalization (Organismo de Evaluación y Fiscalización Ambiental, Peru)

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

orphans and vulnerable children

Environmental Adjustment and Management Plan (Programa de Adecuación y Manejo Ambiental, Peru)

Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path (Partido Comunista del Perú-Sendero Luminoso)

Mexican Petroleums (Petróleos Mexicanos)

Patriotic Front (Zambia)

Precious Minerals Marketing Company

Mining Programme in Solidarity with the People (Programa Minero de Solidaridad con el Pueblo, Peru)

Provisional National Defence Council (Ghana)

Christian People’s Party (Partido Popular Cristiano, Peru)

Petroleum Revenue Management Act (Ghana)

Ministry of Production (Ministerio de Producción, Peru)

Roan Consolidated Copper Mines

American Roan Selection Trust

Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (Ghana)

Southern African Institute for Policy and Research

Structural Adjustment Programme

National Service of Environmental Certification of Sustainable Investments (Servicio Nacional de Certificación Ambiental para las Inversiones Sostenibles, Peru)

State Gold Mining Corporation (Ghana)

Supreme Military Council (Ghana)

National Society of Mining, Oil, and Energy (Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Petróleo y Energía, Peru)

Southern Peru Copper Corporation

National Superintendency of Tax Administration (Superintendencia Nacional de Administración Tributaria, Peru)

Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure, Bolivia)

Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Zambia)

United Gold Convention Party (Ghana)

United National Independence Party (Zambia)

Odriíst National Union (Unión Nacional Odriísta, Peru)

United Party for National Development (Zambia)

United Progressive Party (Zambia)

United States Agency for International Development

value added tax

World Bank

World War II

Bolivian National Oilfields (Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales de Bolivia)

Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines

Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment Holdings

Zambia Congress of Trade Unions

Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation