draw on the Bui Dam, a major dam in Ghana, financed by China Exim Bank (CEB), the largest financier of infrastructure in … Africa, and constructed by Sinohydro, the largest dam developer worldwide, as a case study to explore social impacts of … Chinese players, the financing modalities, and the dam's impacts on the local labour market. We find that social safeguards …

impacts of the China-financed Bui Dam in Ghana. We use two difference-in-differences models to identify change of the … electricity transmitted from Bui Dam. We found that after the Bui Dam's completion, the likelihood for households living in the … witness a much higher increase in their ownership of various electric appliances, suggesting that the Bui Dam's improvement of …

Large dams were central to policy making in Ghana and the rest of Africa in the early postcolonial period as part of … industrialised countries. Ghana has constructed three large dams, primarily for the provision of hydroelectricity, to catalyse … implications for the environment and human wellbeing, and the continuing global interest in dam construction, particularly in …

by discussing these issues in relation to Chinese overseas hydropower dams in Ghana (Bui Dam) and Cambodia (Kamchay Dam … discussions with local communities affected by the dams, institutional actors in Ghana and Cambodia, Chinese actors, and dam … builders. The article uses an environmental justice perspective as an analytical framework. The article concludes that the dam …

In the 21st century Ghana has seen the revival and construction of dam projects which had previously been stalled for … decades as a result of financing constraints and socio-environmental concerns. What has enabled Ghana’s contemporary dam … competition, willing external partners and a global commodity boom has enabled contemporary Ghana to construct new dam projects at …