When countries rely too heavily on natural resource exploitation, they often overlook other forms of economic activities like agriculture and manufacturing, which can distribute income more widely ...

Sometimes this is caused by environmental damage and the marginalization of local populations who fail to benefit economically from natural resource exploitation." In response to these challenges ...

President John Dramani Mahama has advocated increased indigenous participation in exploitating the country’s natural resources, as part of a broader strategy to revive the economy and reduce ...

Natural resources are indeed a window of opportunity for economic development. In principle, revenues derived from their exploitation can help alleviate the binding constraints that governments in ...

It’s centred around the intensive and extensive exploitation of natural resources for export. This would include things like extracting oil and mining, but also large-scale agrobusiness. “The most ...

However, the same pattern of exploitation plays out with a wide range of natural resources, he points out, from the cobalt that ends up in expensive electronics to the cocoa that goes into ...

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has challenged the government to immediately review all contracts pertaining to Ghana’s natural resources to make the country gain the most from their ...