Local content and participation in Ghana's oil and gas industry: Can enterprise development make a difference?

Extractive Industries and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 320-327

  Ablo, Austin Dziwornu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Enterprise development; Ghana; Local content; Oil and gas; Participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928925766     PISSN: 2214790X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2015.02.003     Document Type: Article

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