Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of
institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which …

This paper engages the open governance framework to assess whether and how Ghana's
Right to Information Law, 2019 (Act 989) contributes to accountability in petroleum revenue …

Debates around infrastructure tend to focus on the global North, yet in the global South
demand for infrastructure is huge and we see new and emergent actors engaged in finance …

The development of transparency and accountability enhancing institutions has been
argued by new institutionalists as a means of engendering prudent petroleum revenue …

This article explores the ways in which the ruling Frelimo elite in Mozambique engaged
creatively with the opportunities and constraints created by Sasol's Pande and Temane …

China's internationalization has been heralded by some as a new era of South–South
cooperation. Yet such framings of development are pitched at an abstract space of the …

Research on how countries are positioning and 'greening'their heavy industries in response
to the 'global energy transition'has focused on higher-income countries with established …

Both at last year's COP26 and at the recent COP27, a conflict erupted between Western and
African governments over the reduction in development finance for fossil-fuel projects. The …

Governance of Ghana's petroleum sector has evolved from personalised moments of
institutional adjudication, and through exclusive clientelist political manoeuvres, to the active …

This book gives a comprehensive overview of Ghana's hydrocarbon economy using actor
network and assemblage theories to contest the methodological nationalism of mainstream …