04108nam 22006615 450 991016284680332120220401165507.01-137-54072-910.1057/978-1-137-54072-0(CKB)3710000001044467(DE-He213)978-1-137-54072-0(MiAaPQ)EBC4799351(EXLCZ)99371000000104446720170202d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAfrica’s natural resources and underdevelopment how Ghana’s petroleum can create sustainable economic prosperity /by Kwamina Panford1st ed. 2017.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XVI, 249 p.)1-137-54071-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 Nigeria, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea - and demonstrates how mismanagement in those countries can provide valuable lessons for new oil producers in Africa and elsewhere. Relying on a broad range of fieldwork and policymaking experience, Panford suggests practical measures for resource-rich developing countries to transform natural resources into valuable assets that can help create jobs, boost human resources, and improve living and working conditions in Ghana in particular. He suggests fiscal, legal, and environmental antidotes to resource mismanagement, which he identifies as the major obstacle to socioeconomic development in countries that have historically relied on natural resources. >.Africa—Economic conditionsDevelopment economicsIndustrial organizationNatural resourcesEnergy policyEnergy and stateAfrican Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W45020Development Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W42000Industrial Organizationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W31010Natural Resource and Energy Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W48010Energy Policy, Economics and Managementhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/112000GhanaEconomic conditions21st centuryAfricafastGhanafastAfrica—Economic conditions.Development economics.Industrial organization.Natural resources.Energy policy.Energy and state.African Economics.Development Economics.Industrial Organization.Natural Resource and Energy Economics.Energy Policy, Economics and Management.330Panford Kwaminaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut999998BOOK9910162846803321Africa’s Natural Resources and Underdevelopment2295543UNINA