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Ghana between resources and rival powers: The politics of strategic choice
Ghana’s local-content rules require mining companies to use Ghanaian labour, skills, goods, services and finance in defined areas.
Ghana’s leverage lies in regulatory consent, the tax treatment of the ownership change, the continuing force of the lease, local-content duties, and community protections.
The International Monetary Fund’s 2024 debt analysis included Sinohydro financing within public debt coverage, and AidData records a September 2024 Ghanaian disclosure that the arrangement had been reclassified as a loan after the bauxite processing plant failed to materialise.
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