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We examine the relationship between mining activity and participation and positioning in the global value chain in 74 developing countries from 1995–2018. Mining activity can impact countries' participation and especially their positioning in this chain through the changes it induces in the industrial and institutional structure of countries. We use the event study method, taking the activation of mines as the event to be studied, with a study time horizon of 5 years. Our relatively robust results show that mining activity harms positioning in the global value chain through specialisation towards start‐of‐the‐chain industries. The type of mineral extracted, and the mode of extraction plays an essential role in this relationship. Institutional quality, level of openness, and geographical position of countries condition our results.

This paper analyzes the impact of armed conflicts on the renewable energy consumption in 46 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2000-2020. It uses a dynamic spatial econometric method to capture the spatial and dynamic effects of these conflicts on renewable energy consumption. Using the dynamic and spatial method of the Durbin model, the main results show that armed conflicts have a significant negative impact on renewable energy consumption. The effect is to 30.97% for the dynamic model against 31.28% for the non-dynamic model. The spatial effects of these conflicts show us that armed conflicts, through their contagion and spillover effects, have a significant and negative impact on renewable energy consumption in the region of 32.11%. The short- and long-term results are generally negative and significant. For heterogeneity, results show that the effect of terrorism is larger than the effect of other types of conflict. Moreover, the impact of armed conflict on renewable energy consumption is greater in the Sahel than in the rest of our sample. This article shows that the effect of conflict on the consumption of renewable energy passes through three main transmission channels : economic development, the increase in military spending as a result of conflict, to the detriment of green investment, and uncertainty, which penalizes investment and the production of renewable energy.