'Everyone Now is Concentrating on the Mining': Drivers and Implications of Rural Economic Transition in the Eastern Region of Ghana

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 348-364

  Hilson, Gavin ^a   Garforth, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTISANAL MINING; ECONOMIC POLICY; INCOME; RURAL ECONOMY; SMALL SCALE MINING; SMALLHOLDER; STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

GHANA;

EID: 84873719131     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2012.713469     Document Type: Article

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