@article{779382,
      recid = {779382},
      author = {Panford, Martin Kwamina,},
      title = {Africa's natural resources and underdevelopment : how  Ghana's petroleum can create sustainable economic  prosperity /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book explores how African countries can convert their  natural resources, particularly oil and gas, into  sustainable development assets. Using Ghana, one of the  continent's newest oil-producing countries, as a lens, it  examines the "resource curse" faced by other producers -  such as Nigeria, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea - and  demonstrates how mismanagement in those countries can  provide valuable lessons for new oil producers in Africa  and elsewhere. Relying on a broad range of fieldwork and  policymaking experience, Panford suggests practical  measures for resource-rich developing countries to  transform natural resources into valuable assets that can  help create jobs, boost human resources, and improve living  and working conditions in Ghana in particular. He suggests  fiscal, legal, and environmental antidotes to resource  mismanagement, which he identifies as the major obstacle to  socioeconomic development in countries that have  historically relied on natural resources. },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/779382},
}