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What You Need to Know About Robotic Process Automation: How It Works & Real-W...Captricity
Insurers of all sizes are responsible for processing millions of paper documents each year (including complex handwritten forms). From new business applications to claim forms to death certificates., existing document capture and digitization solutions typically lead to sub-par accuracy, NIGO rates that require expensive and time-consuming manual re-work, and long turnaround times leading to a poor customer experience. Join us to hear the key challenges insurers face in onboarding automated solutions and learn how 5 of the Top 10 U.S. life insurers are automating customer forms and documents without heavy investments in IT resources.
The Business Case for Robotic Process Automation (RPA)Joe Tawfik
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http://resourcegovernanceindex.org/about/global-report
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https://resourcegovernance.org/our-work/country/myanmar
http://resourcegovernanceindex.org/about/global-report
http://resourcegovernanceindex.org/country-profiles/MMR/mining
2017 Resource Governance Index
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ASM China
1. Regulating SSMs in China
Prof/Dr Xia Cao
(caoxia_502@163.com)
Law School, Shanxi Univ. of Finance & Economics, Taiyuan, Shanxi, PR China
General Regulatory Information
SSMs have a long history in China, but they (referred
as Township and Village Mines in the past) boomed with
China’s open-door and reform policy in late 1970s and
under the influence of a “rigorous policy” that
encouraged large, medium and small-scale mines to
simultaneously to develop to realize the maximum of
production. Up till the end of 1980s, Small-scaled coal
mines contributed to over 50% of national coal output.
As a whole, for years, China’s SSMs have played a vital
role in easing minerals shortage of the country;
improving rural economic structures, promoting
township and village enterprises and local economy;
creating alternative livelihoods and income for farmers
and strengthening the development of minor cities across
rural areas. But meanwhile, their operations are fraught
2. with issues, mainly including illegal operations,
backward mining technology, disorderly competitions,
irrational locations, resources waste, environmental
damage and poor safety records.
Legislation Framework
China have issued heavy loads of regulations to
formalize and legalize its SSM including mineral
resources law, environmental law, safety law, law of
township and village enterprises, labour law as well as
countless departmental and ministerial rules and
regulations.
Institutional Arrangements
1. Department of Geology and Minerals (1982)
2. Ministry of Coal Industry (1988-1992)/Ministry of
Agriculture (1986)
3. State Coal Industry Bureau under the State
Economic and Trade Commission (1998)
4. Ministry of Land and Resources (MOLAR) (1998)
3. 5. State Bureau of Safety Production Administration
and Supervision/State Bureau of Supervision of
Coal Mine Safety (2001) when No. 3 was canceled.
6. No. 5 was promoted to be a ministerial department
(2005)
7.Energy Bureau under the State Development and
Reform Commission (SDRC) has undertaken part of
administration over coal when the State Economic
and Trade Commission was canceled in 2003.
★ complicated and change constantly
★ institutional adjustment has not been directly and
concurrently finished in lower hieratical levels
Closure and Consolidation Policies
Two important policies are needed to be mentioned
specially: One is production reduction and closure of
SSMs, and the other is resources consolidation.
Production reduction and closure was conducted from
late 1990s of the 20th century in an attempt to rectify
those small-scale mines, especially small-scale coal
mines (township and village coal mines—TVCMs). It
4. aims to overcome such issues as small-scale, scattering
location and disorderly operation of TVCMs for the
purpose of combating the over-production of coal.
Resources consolidation started in 2005 and aims at
efficiently and rationally exploiting mineral resources in
line with the country’s planned layouts for mineral
resources. Take coal mines for example, all those coal
mines below 90, 000t in coal producing provinces, and
those below 300,000t in coal-rich provinces will have to
be closed or consolidated.
With these two policies, tens of thousands of SSMs
were closed, and by the end of 2005, the number of SSMs
throughout the country decreased from 280,000 in 1995 to
120,000, and TVCMs from 76,000 to 25,000. According
to the deployment of the Ministry of Land and Resources
(MOLAR) and other 11 ministries and commissions at
central level, the number of TVCMs will be cut down to
around 10,000 by the end of 2010, and they will be
eventually withdrawn from the coal industry by the end of
2015. With the enjoinment of the country, TVCMs have
been closed and consolidated in a planned way.
5. Existing regulatory issues
Lack of a proper definition of SSMs: “Small-scale
mines are those small-scaled and labour-intensive
mining enterprises that, for livelihood or
commercial purposes, conduct mining operations
in mineral-limited areas by applying simple or
rudimentary mining equipment and technology.
They include small-scaled mines with a
production capacity that conforms to the national
small-scale criteria, and artisanal mines with a
capacity below 1/10 of the upper limit of the
criteria for the former, all of which constitute a
fundamentally component part of the mining
industry.”
Lack of independent legal status in codified
instruments, MRL was first issued in 1986 and
amended in 1996, where both large-scale mines
and SSMs are universally stipulated.
Highly unsteady and incoherent policies with
more restrictions and reproaches than
encouragement and assistance;
6. Numerous, jumbled and segmented SSM
regulations featured with a low degree of legal
effect but a high degree of expedience;
Complicated and changeable institutional
arrangements with unclearly defined
responsibilities, poor coordination between
departments at various levels, and simplistic
methods of management and low effectiveness.
Options forward for improved regulation of SSMs
Arguably the deficiencies mentioned above largely
relate to the fact that China has long attached great
importance to large-and-medium-scale mines without
due regard to the status and role of SSMs,which has
constituted one of the important reasons for blind and
reckless development of SSMs, and the failure and
ineffectiveness to close those with poor environmental,
safety and health records. Hence, it is urgently necessary
to speed up the improvement of SSM legislation and the
reform of SSM management system. Closure and
consolidation are necessary, but mediation and sound
7. direction of SSM are even more important given that
China is a country with highly protruding issues
concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and that
the majority of mineral deposits are small-scaled, it is
imperative that China have a small number of legalized
SSMs for some years to come. So the author contends
that China’s SSM regulatory improvement should be
through:
to revise relevant policy and identify and affirm
objectively the status and role of SSMs in the
context of sustainable Development;
To improve SSM legislation by urgently drafting a
separate chapter in the national mining law;
encouragingly China is now revising its MRL in
which a separate chapter is expected to add into.
To establish an independent and authoritative SSM
management agency to provide comprehensive and
“one-stop” services to SSMs on the
“people-centered” basis;
To encourage extensive public involvement,
explore external resources and broaden
international cooperation, and fostering an