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The Kumtor gold mine and the rise of resource nationalism in Kyrgyzstan

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21/08/2015
Author
Fumagalli, Matteo
Keywords
Kyrgyzstan
Kumtor
Mining sector
Gold
Resource nationalism
Social contention
Central Asia
JZ International relations
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Kyrgyzstan’s mining sector has become the battleground on which a number of players, namely the government, the opposition, local communities, and transnational corporations, defend their interests. No other site illustrates this point more than the country’s most prized asset, namely the gold mine at Kumtor, located some 350 kilometers south-east of the capital city of Bishkek. Kumtor is the country’s main source of hard currency, a vital contributor to the country’s GDP, and the single largest private employer. Since 1997, when production started, Kumtor has emerged as one of the most contentious issues in the small Central Asian republic’s socio-economic and political life.
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Fumagalli , M 2015 ' The Kumtor gold mine and the rise of resource nationalism in Kyrgyzstan ' Central Asia Economic Paper Series , no. 16 , George Washington University, Central Asia Program , Washington DC . < http://centralasiaprogram.org/archives/8661 >
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© 2015 the Author. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at http://centralasiaprogram.org/archives/8661
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12434

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