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Local content law and practice: The case of Ghana

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Photo: Dion Beetson on Unsplash Extractives for Development (E4D) – risks and opportunities

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Local content law and practice: The case of the oil and gas industry in Ghana

Local content and local participation policy and legislation have come to stay in Ghana’s oil and gas industry...

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Conclusions

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Doubling down: National oil companies as instruments of risk and reward

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Extractives for development: Introduction and ten main messages

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Extractive Industries: The Management of Resources as a Driver of Sustainable Development

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...

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Enhancing local content in Uganda’s oil and gas industry

This paper analyses policy options to promote local content in Uganda as it transitions into an oil-producing country...

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Doubling down: National oil companies as instruments of risk and reward

National oil companies tend to elicit unequivocal views. To political leaders within petroleum-producing countries, they often represent a sine qua non of a strategy capable of delivering long-term benefits to citizens...

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