Africa’s Natural Resources and Underdevelopment How Ghana’s Petroleum Can Create Sustainable Economic Prosperity /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Panford, Kwamina (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Θέματα: Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Industrial organization.; Development economics.; Economics.; African Economics.; Development Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.