Globalization, the return to a multi-party system of government, and the policies advocated by the IMF and the World Bank have led to near revolutionary labor relations in Ghana. As Panford shows, these new social and economic forces have unleashed new and even contradictory labor policies and practices which are having profound social, political, and economic consequences.
Panford examines how the Ghana Constitution of 1992 led for the first time to new workers' rights, including the right to affiliate with any local, national, or international union. In response to...
Globalization, the return to a multi-party system of government, and the policies advocated by the IMF and the World Bank have led to near revoluti...
This proposed book is about how Ghana, one of Africa's new oil producing nations is exploiting this popular and controversial natural resource. It is also about whether the popular resource curse and its related theories of the Dutch disease and the enclave effect are applicable to Ghana or not. This book also deals with the experiences of other key natural resource producers in Africa, mainly: Nigeria, oil and gas; Angola, oil, gas and diamond; Equatorial Guinea ( E. Guinea), oil and gas and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), copper, diamond, oil to coltan, have fared within the...
This proposed book is about how Ghana, one of Africa's new oil producing nations is exploiting this popular and controversial natural resource. It is ...
