Black gold in Ghana: Changing livelihoods for women in communities affected by oil production

Extractive Industries and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-32

  Adusah Karikari, Augustina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Oil; Oil communities; Women's livelihoods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920885164     PISSN: 2214790X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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