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Oil exploration in the developing world has been and continues to be a high profile and high risk activity, often featured in the media and widely debated. Using the perspective of Ghana and comparisons with countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, and Norway, the contributors, global experts in their respective fields, explore five critical areas an
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1: Introduction; 1: Turning Oil and Gas Wealth into Sustainable and Equitable Development; 2: Managing the Extractive Resource; 3: Revenue Management in the Oil and Gas Sector; 4: Ghana's Petroleum Revenue Management Law: A Social Contract for Good Economic Governance and Possible Challenges; 5: Risks in Gas-Power Project Financing; II: Entrenching Transparency and Stakeholder Engagement; 6: Towards Good Governance in Ghana's Petroleum Sector; 7: Civil Society and the Evolution of Accountability in the Petroleum Sector; 8: Can Ghana Avoid the Resource Curse?; III: Entrenching Transparency and Stakeholder Engagement; 9: Ghana's Present Legal Framework for Upstream Petroleum Production; 10: Petroleum Economics �€â Ghana's Petroleum Tax Regime and its Strategic Implications; 11: Maximizing National Development From the Oil and Gas Sector Through Local Value-Add: Extracting From an Extractive Industry; 12: Natural Gas as a Source for Downstream Industrial Development; IV: Safeguarding Security and the Environment; 13: Oil and Gas Issues: The Environment, Health and Safety, and Community Engagement; 14: Oil and Gas Security Issues; V: Country-specific Models and Lessons for Ghana and Other African Oil-producing Nations; 15: The Trinidad and Tobago Model; 16: The Main Attributes of the Norwegian Approach; 17: The Norwegian Experience; 18: Conclusion
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Kwaku Appiah-Adu (PhD) is Professor of Business Management and Vice Dean at Central University Business School and Chairman of the Centre for Advanced Strategic Analysis, Ghana. He was Head of Policy Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation at the Office of the President, Ghana, Chairman of the Oil and Gas Technical Committee, Director of Ghana�€�s Central Governance Project and a member of the Advisory Board for the UN Initiative on Continental Shelf Delineation. Kwaku served as a member of the President�€�s Investors�€� Advisory Council. He has worked as a Consultant with PwC and lectured at the Universities of Cardiff and Portsmouth. An author of five books on management, Kwaku has published widely in refereed journals and presented papers at several international forums. He has been elected to the ANBAR Hall of Excellence. He is a director of a number of blue-chip companies.
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Oil exploration in the developing world has been and continues to be a high profile and high risk activity, often featured in the media and widely debated. Using the perspective of Ghana and comparisons with countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, and Norway, the contributors, global experts in their respective fields, explore five critical areas an
