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- Demonstrates how new petroleum producers can avoid the proverbial "resource curse"
- Highlights measures to prevent mismanagement of resources
- Uses Ghana as a case study while also examining challenges prospective petroleum producers in Africa could face
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“Panford’s book is recommended to all readers, including the secondary and tertiary youth. The ease of language without sacrificing technical details and relevant key terms offers much to aid the reader grasp what’s going on with Ghana and Africa’s bounty of resources: how Ghana’s gas, for example, can be used to become a ‘socially transformative asset’ … . This book is recommended for adoption in other developing countries as part of anew and progressive education and curriculum … .” (Anis Haffar, Graphic Online, graphic.com.gh, May, 2017)
“Africa’s Natural Resources and Underdevelopment: How Ghana’s Petroleum Can Create Sustainable Economic Prosperity Kwamina Panford examines the ways by which Ghana can minimize the associated negative ramifications of oil and gas extraction. … an exciting, well written and easy to comprehend book that will be appreciated by policy makers, students and academics.” (Austin Dziwornu Ablo, Geography Research Forum, raphael.geography.ad.bgu.ac.il, Vol. 37, 2017)
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Book Title: Africa’s Natural Resources and Underdevelopment
Book Subtitle: How Ghana’s Petroleum Can Create Sustainable Economic Prosperity
Authors: Kwamina Panford
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54072-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54071-3Published: 03 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54072-0Published: 02 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 249
Topics: African Economics, Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management