difficult in well-governed Ghana in the last decade; and might prove to be extremely challenging in post-conflict countries such …

operations in Ghana which focused on developing the mining sector: the Export Rehabilitation project, the Export Rehabilitation …The objectives of the project ($9.37 million, 1996-2001) were to (a) enhance the capacity of the mining sector … institutions to carry out their functions of encouraging and regulating investments in the mining sector in an environmentally …

this exogenous variation, we show that during 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price …

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when … minerals are aggregated, mining increases district inequality. But an analysis of individual minerals shows that mining affects …