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We examine the extent to which two of Africa’s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted … investments in Ghana and Tanzania are used to illustrate policy impact and the state-capital relations that shape policy …
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' exposure to mining pollution using data obtained on gold mining in Ghana. The empirical results confirm that, after controlling …
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This paper examines irregular South-South migration from China to Ghana, and the role it has played in transforming … Ghana, they formed mutually beneficial relationships with local miners, both legal and illegal, introducing machinery that … Ghanaian and Chinese actors, as well as transforming economic, political, and physical landscapes in Ghana. …
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Most research on illicit financial flows (IFFs) has focused on illicit outflows from developing countries and the role of non-state actors in generating IFFs. Less attention has been paid to processes and interfaces through which IFFs enter formal value chains-in effect being 'legalized' before...
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Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a "mining take-off". Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-intensive artisanal mining, which, at...
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Ghana, in contrast, adopts the 'co-opt-elite' approach and deliberately absorbs local elites into the water committee. This …
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. Cross section data on 2,691 clients and non-clients households from Ghana is used to test the hypothesis of loan price … ; microfinance ; Ghana …
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This study provides an analysis of the aid-private capital flows-growth nexus for Ghana. It is premised on the argument … that Ghana's new status as a middle income country plus the start of oil production is bound to result in a reduction in … curse'. The study makes two key observations about the economy of Ghana. First, it notes that although the structure of the …
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Ghana's experience since the early 1990s indicates that external aid can significantly impact a country';s democratic … transition. External democracy assistance has been a crucial, positive factor in Ghana's steady evolution into an electoral … democracy over the past two decades. Continuing gaps in the quality of Ghana's democracy confirms, however, that even sustained …
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rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of … income poverty are imperative for different locations in Ghana. …
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