Over the past decade, Ghana’s policymakers have become increasingly preoccupied with extracting a larger share of profits from booming large-scale mineral exploration and mining activities. The series of generous tax breaks enshrined within reformed mining policy described in Chapter 3 by Thomas Akabza...
This chapter investigates the activities of a Chinese mining company in the small-scale gold mining sector in a corner of Ghana. It questions the legality of its operations, given that small-scale mining is by law ‘reserved for Ghanaians’, and argues that bribery combined with corruption amon...
Banchirigah SM. Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana: a perspective from the grassroots. Resour Policy. 2008;33:29-38.S.M. Banchirigah, Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana: a perspective from the grassroots, Resources Policy 33 (1) (2008) 29-38....
2. Formalizing ASM in sub-Saharan Africa: Some rapid reflections 3. The Ghana situation in context 4. Mission impossible? Towards a new ASM formalization strategy in Ghana 5. Concluding remarks CRediT authorship contribution statement Declaration of Competing Interest Acknowledgments ReferencesShow full ...
However, few countries, namely, India, China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Ghana, Cambodia, etc. are facing sub stantial deficits towards the sustainable treatment of E-waste. A number of the patterns in utilization and generation procedures are unsustainable and pose a real threat ...
subsidiaries, so that Chifeng Gold and China-Africa Fund hold no more than 50% (inclusive) of overseas shares in the project company Golden Star (Wassa) Limited, which operates Wassa Gold Mine in Ghana, from the perspective of Chinese tax law, which is legally achievable and economically ...
Download preview PDF. Notes and References CBS, Economic Survey 1960, as quoted in Killick (1966), p. 251. Google Scholar Government of Ghana, Report of the Committee for Increased Gold Output in Ghana (1980), p. vii. Google Scholar CBS, Quarterly Digest of Statistics March 1984, p....
Data Mining using text analysis is an emerging research area which helps to discover patterns in unstructured text.Text mining can help derive valuable insightful relations from text-based content to a structured format for further analysis.In Ghana, one key focus of any Government is not just ...
(with colonisation) into European economies 60's & 70's - Independence assertion of national sovereignty and significant / full state ownership of mining enterprises (eg Ghana, Guinea, Zambia) Late 80's – much of Africa's mining industry in a state of crisis paradigm shift: ...
Gold mining has been the backbone of Ghana's development since pre-colonial times. It has been essential in revenue mobilisation and the provision of employment to many people. However, in recent times the sector has received severe pub- lic backlash due to its inability to effect appropri- ...