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Abstract
Ghana has made policy commitments and engaged in several other activities aimed at improving governance in its mineral resource sector. Notwithstanding these efforts, Ghana does not have transparency- and accountability-enhancing laws that would serve as the basis for the ordinary citizen to demand information and call managers of mineral resources to account. This article argues that the legal vacuum constitutes a significant drawback in the country’s commitment to good governance. The key instrument in ensuring that Ghana meets its good governance commitment in the mining sector is the enactment of transparency- and accountability-enhancing laws that will allow for unfettered access to information on mineral resources as well as establishing mechanisms and institutions to monitor the utilisation of resource rents.
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Theodore Nsoe Adimazoya
Theodore Nsoe Adimazoya BA (Ghana); LLB (Ghana); LLM (Calgary). He would also like to thank Professor Nigel Bankes for supervision of his LLM thesis and Dr Dominic Ayine of the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana for his comments at the early stages of the development of this article. The author can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected].