(Op-ed.) Ghana found oil in 2011 - in modest quantities. With its good management and good governance, there is reason to believe Ghana will avoid falling ...

Ghana liberalized its telecom sector in 1995. This study looks at the impact of the phenomenal growth in access to telephones on the business practices ...

Oil exploration in the developing world has been and continues to be a high profile and high risk activity attracting media coverage and stimulating much ...

Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana Ragnhild Overå Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies J

Opplæring i produksjon og bruk av not i Ghana Ragnhild Overå og Eyolf Jul-Larsen Fisheries, techn

Ghana liberalized its telecommunications sector in 1995. This article examines the impact of the phenomenal growth in access to cell phones on informal ...

This essay tells the story of how by-catch from trawlers arrived as a new opportunity arising from foreign investments in Ghana's fisheries, and the way ...

Strengthening formal control and oversight institutions is a common policy prescription for addressing corruption in natural resource sectors and escaping ...

Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation ...

With a focus on the institutional set-up and the political environment as central to understanding and rectifying the poor impact of mining on Ghana’s ...

Rom for manøver? Kjønnsideologi og entreprenørskap I Ghana Ragnhild Overå Menneskers rom Inger J.

Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation ...

Wives and Traders: Women's Careers in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries Ragnhild Overå Maritime Anthropologi

The desire to modernise African small-scale fisheries has persisted since colonial times. In terms of research into and policy on fisheries, mainstream ...

Constraints to realising local rationality: The case of the rural banks of Ghana Andy C.Y. Kwawukum

Improving the Business and Investment Climate (BIC) has become an important topic in the international discourse on private sector development. Partner ...

The relationships between population dynamics and fishery resources are more complex than the concept of Malthusian overfishing implies. Reasons include ...

Community development funds drawing from resource revenues are increasingly used to address issues of revenue distribution and local development in resource ...

In the context of a mining boom in Africa, a critical consideration is how governments use increased mineral wealth to foster development, particularly ...

In this edited volume, senior researcher Ragnhild Overaa writes about coastal women in Ghana in her essay When Sisters Become Competitors: Coastal Women's Innovative Utilization of Trawler By-Catch in Ghana. How do actors in "traditional" and "modern" systems of fishing interact? What economic and social changes occur in a local community as a result of women's entrepreneurship in relation to both systems?