Trade liberalisation and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Proliferation in Africa. The Ghanaian Case.

• In Event: Africa in the Global Political Economy

Brief Overview

This paper argues that unregulated liberalized ASM trade shapes the expansion of ASM in Africa. This argument challenges theories of patronage and bureaucratic/institutional weakness used to conceptualize ASM’s spate in Africa.

Author

• Isaac Haruna Ziaba, London School of Economics and Political Science