Africa’s Natural Resources and Underdevelopment How Ghana’s Petroleum Can Create Sustainable Economic Prosperity /
This book explores how African countries can convert their natural resources, particularly oil and gas, into sustainable development assets. Using Ghana, one of the continent’s newest oil-producing countries, as a lens, it examines the "resource curse" faced by other producers - such as Ni...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54072-0 |
Table of Contents:
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The Paradox of Africa’s Natural Resource Wealth
- 3.Can Natural Resource-Related Social and Economic Maladies Be Avoided in Africa?
- 4.Ghana’s Petroleum: Will the Myth of Ghanaian Exceptionalism in Africa be Sustained or Broken?
- 5.Petroleum Production Challenges in Ghana
- 6.Actual and Potential Conflicts Off- and Onshore in Ghana’s Oil-Producing Region
- 7.Policies for High-Value Contributions of Africa’s Resources to Sustainable Development
- 8.Summary and Conclusion.