Structural Adjustment in Ghana: Assessing the Impacts of Mining-Sector Reform

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Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Alleviating Poverty in Mining Communities? Experiences from Ghana (2009, background): “To secure the requisite levels of foreign investment in large-scale mining projects, particularly those emphasising the extraction of gold, the Ghanaian government, under the guidance of the World Bank, modified some 78 acts, ordinances, decrees, codes and laws regulating the sector (Hilson, 2004).”
Linkages in Ghana's gold mining industry: Challenging the enclave thesis (2012, background): “…gains, largely because the government, under the auspices of the Bretton Woods Institutions, has over the past 15 to 20 years, been successful in its attempts to promote widespread foreign investment in mineral exploration and excavation projects (Aryee 2001; Hilson 2002, 2004; Bank of Ghana 2003).”
The “Good Governance” Concept Revisited (2006, background): “…experiencing further marginalization, large displacements of the population have occurred, a substantial portion of the mineral economy of the country is owned by foreign multinationals, and there has occurred unabated mine pollution and contamination of the fresh water resources (Hilson 2004).”