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The New El Dorado in Romania: The State and The World Bank against local development

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Don Kalb looks at the resistance of local Romanian communitites to the Rossia Montana venture and how it is failing to promote sustainable private sector investment but rather endanger people's lives and the environment they depend on.

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1 I am grateful to Ileana Benga of the Romanian Academy of Sciences of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, for providing essential information and to Wendy Harcourt for her thoughtful editing.

Documents the resistance of local Romanian communities to the Rosia Montana gold mining venture

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Kalb, D. The New El Dorado in Romania: The State and The World Bank against local development. Development 49, 106–110 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100289

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