Structural adjustment and subsistence industry: Artisanal gold mining in Ghana

By G. Hilson, C. Potter. 2005

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Chinese Participation in Ghana's Informal Gold Mining Economy: Drivers, Implications and Clarifications (2014, background): “The sector has absorbed many tens of thousands of people made redundant in the public and private sectors under adjustment, a shift in labour which Dreschler (2001), Hilson and Potter (2005), Banchrigah (2006) and others have since drawn attention to.”
Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review (2014, background): “Similar phenomena have been observed in Ghana, where, as Hilson and Potter (2005) report, scores of skilled and educated people made redundant during a protracted period of structural adjustment, including various largescale mine personnel, accountants, bookkeepers, teachers and public sector…”
Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Alleviating Poverty in Mining Communities? Experiences from Ghana (2009, background): “An estimated 200,000 people are currently employed in ASM nationwide (Hilson and Potter, 2005), although when all dependents(4) are included, the sector provides a livelihood to as many as one million people.”
The Economic Logic of Persistent Informality: Artisanal and Small‐Scale Mining in the Southern Philippines (2015, background): “Another major reason for the persistence of informality in many countries is government support for large-scale mining (Banchirigah, 2007; Hilson and Potter, 2005).”
De-agrarianization, re-agrarianization and local economic development: Re-orientating livelihoods in African artisanal mining communities (2010, background): “A testament to the significance of ASM in this context is how, since publication of the country’s first PRSP, it has expanded and today flourishes in the so-called ‘agricultural breadbaskets’ of Ghana, including Dunkwa, Tarkwa, Bibiani, and Obuasi (see Amankwah and Anim-Sackey 2003; Aryee 2003; Arye”
A dangerous bet: The challenges of formalizing artisanal mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2012, background): “In this case, it is argued that formal titles are “the basis of a miner’s access to legal redress when rights are violated” (Siegel and Veiga, 2009: 52) and give them ‘voice’ in decision-making processes (Hilson and Potter, 2005: 108).”
Making Concessions: Extractive Enclaves, Entangled Capitalism and Regulative Pluralism at the Gold Mining Frontier in Burkina Faso (2018, background): “Many scholars agree that liberalisation reforms have fuelled dynamics of privatisation and informalisation of both economy and regulatory authority in the mining sector (Campbell, 2009; Hilson & Potter, 2005; Hönke, 2010; Spiegel, 2012, 2014).”