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e ect of mining on agricultural output and productivity in Ghana. We focus on gold mining, the most important extractive industry in Ghana in terms of export value and scal revenue. The industry has experienced a boom since the late 1990s, mostly driven by the expansion and opening of
Mining in Ghana. Our empirical analysis pertains to the case of gold mining in Ghana. Most of the gold (around 97%) is extracted by modern, largescale mines located in three regions: Western, Ashanti and Central. 16 These mines, similar to other modern mines in the world, are capital intensive, highly mechanised operations.
Technology is the obvious productivity lever that the mining industry can continue to use to unlock further productivity improvement, Ivory continued.
The focus is on largescale gold mining in Ghana, which is capitalintensive, releases environmental pollutants and is located near agricultural areas. Guided by a consumerproducer framework, we estimate an agricultural production function and find that farmers located near mines experienced a relative reduction in total factor productivity of almost 40% between 1997 and 2005.
Ghanas mining sect or contr ibutes approximately 40% of G ross Foreign Exchange (GFE) earnings and accounts for approximately % of GDP (Ghana Minerals Comm ission, 2006). In 2000, minerals
This omission may overestimate the contribution of extractive industries to local economies and lead to insucient compensation and mitigation policies. The next section provides an overview of mining in Ghana and discusses the link between mining, pollution and agricultural productivity. Section 3 describes the empirical strategy and the data.
Polluting Industries and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Mining in Ghana Fernando M. Arag on Juan Pablo Rudy August 2014 Abstract This paper examines the e ect of polluting industries on agricultural productivity. The focus is on largescale gold mining in Ghana which, similar to other fuel intensive activities,
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2 Mining and its measured productivity 7 Australias mining industry 7 Measured productivity of mining 20 3 Understanding productivity in mining: natural resource inputs 35 The input of natural resources 36 Optimal extraction, depletion of deposits and productivity 40 Evidence of depletion 43
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The mining industry of ghana accounts for 5 percent of the countrys gdp with minerals making up 37 percent of total exports of which gold contributes over 90 percent of the total mineral exports,Improvement Of Productivity In Mining Industries In Ghana 2.
Short title: Polluting Industries and Agricultural Productivity Abstract We examine how modern, polluting industries can a ect agricultural productivity. The focus is on largescale gold mining in Ghana, which is capitalintensive, releases environmental pollutants and is located near agricultural areas. Guided by a consumerproducer
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