IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-031-07048-8_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Ghana

In: Mining Law and Economic Policy

Author

Listed:
  • Charles Afeku

    (African Legal Support Facility)

  • Akua Debrah

    (University of the Witwatersrand)

Abstract

This chapter traces the origins and developments of Ghana’s mineral rights ownership regime that currently entrusts minerals in the President on behalf of and for the people of Ghana. While the current regime appears to be founded on practices in some parts of pre-colonial Ghana, as well as the British crown law applicable in the colonies during the colonial era, and later the international principle of states’ permanent sovereignty over their natural resources, the responsibilities conditional to these practices, laws, and policies, have not been strictly enforced or examined. A recent Constitutional Review Commission determined that the “concept of trust should be clarified in the Constitution” without recommending how to do this. The authors argue that at the minimum the President or anyone entrusted with a nation’s mineral resources should have a duty of transparency and accountability and make recommendations in this regard.

Suggested Citation

  • Charles Afeku & Akua Debrah, 2022. "Ghana," Springer Books, in: Akua Debrah & Hudson Mtegha (ed.), Mining Law and Economic Policy, chapter 0, pages 37-57, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-07048-8_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-07048-8_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-07048-8_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.