With a background in mining exploration, Corporate Foreign Policy contributor David Harris discusses government intervention in commodity markets to maintain economic competitiveness and speaks out on the need for a privatized mining sector to have an opportunity to thrive in a fair and healthy environment: As the world’s developing nations continue to industrialize, global consumption of [...]

It’s a familiar story, and I won’t be the first one to tell you. As documented widely, the rapid industrial rise of the BRIC economies has created an unexpected demand crush on natural resource commodities, generating all sorts of anomalies for foreign investors in extractive industries. We have seen resource nationalism issues pop up in [...]

Things are looking worse than ever in Zimbabwe, as the increasingly isolated President Robert Mugabe defied international pressure and outright condemnation to proceed with a “one-candidate poll” in the runoff election for the presidency on Friday – leaving not only the beleaguered public, but also foreign and domestic businesses, between a rock and a hard [...]