Ghana’s oil industry: steady growth in a challenging environment
This paper examines Ghana’s petroleum industry, its steady growth, and its initial challenges, such as the maritime border dispute and political interventions. Polarization between the two main political parties in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has...
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description | This paper examines Ghana’s petroleum industry, its steady growth, and its initial challenges, such as the maritime border dispute and political interventions. Polarization between the two main political parties in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has had important consequences for the industry. While an internal Ghanaian political dynamic explains particular traits and processes in the industry, the steady pace of growth, despite low prices, also reflects Ghana’s eagerness, across political party lines, to develop the industry in order to support general economic growth. |
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spelling | oxford-uuid:e3f94cb7-bc94-4c6e-bac9-5160ab374f722022-03-27T10:13:05ZGhana’s oil industry: steady growth in a challenging environmentWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:e3f94cb7-bc94-4c6e-bac9-5160ab374f72Petroleum industry and tradeEnglishORA DepositOxford Institute for Energy Studies2018Skaten, MThis paper examines Ghana’s petroleum industry, its steady growth, and its initial challenges, such as the maritime border dispute and political interventions. Polarization between the two main political parties in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has had important consequences for the industry. While an internal Ghanaian political dynamic explains particular traits and processes in the industry, the steady pace of growth, despite low prices, also reflects Ghana’s eagerness, across political party lines, to develop the industry in order to support general economic growth. |
spellingShingle | Petroleum industry and trade Skaten, M Ghana’s oil industry: steady growth in a challenging environment |
title | Ghana’s oil industry: steady growth in a challenging environment |
title_full | Ghana’s oil industry: steady growth in a challenging environment |
title_fullStr | Ghana’s oil industry: steady growth in a challenging environment |
title_full_unstemmed | Ghana’s oil industry: steady growth in a challenging environment |
title_short | Ghana’s oil industry: steady growth in a challenging environment |
title_sort | ghana s oil industry steady growth in a challenging environment |
topic | Petroleum industry and trade |
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