Governing Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Africa: The Ghanaian Experience

• In Event: Bureaucracy, Decentralization, and Corruption in Africa

Brief Overview

This paper argues that Ghana’s competitive political settlement mediates variation in ASM governance across space and over time. It identifies ASM-induced rents, votes and the spatial variation in ASM form and LSM distribution as vital mechanisms.

Author

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