Oiling the urban economy : land, labour, capital, and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana

Publication Data

• Title Oiling the urban economy : land, labour, capital, and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
• Author Franklin Obeng-Odoom
• Publisher Routledge
• Publication date 2014
• Publication location New York, NY
• Language English

Contents

Africa's oil wealth and crude interpretations of its ramifications
Oil in orthodox theory : repudiation and riposte
Ghana's oil industry
Sekondi-Takoradi : the twin city and its history
Urban economic development under oil
Fishers and farmers in a changing twin city
Compensation and betterment
Taxation
Socialisation of oil rents
Sekondi-Takoradi : challenges, prospects, and lessons.

Topics

• Petroleum industry and trade :: Economic aspects :: Ghana
• Petroleum industry and trade :: Political aspects :: Ghana
• Resource curse :: Ghana
• Land use, Urban :: Ghana :: Sekondi
• Land use, Urban :: Ghana :: Takoradi
• Sekondi (Ghana) :: Economic conditions
• Takoradi (Ghana) :: Economic conditions
• Sekondi (Ghana)
• Takoradi (Ghana)

Oiling the urban economy : land, labour, capital, and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana by Franklin Obeng-Odoom. ISBN 9780415744096. Published by Routledge in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.