Oiling the Urban Economy - Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Oiling the Urban Economy
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Autor: Franklin Obeng-Odoom

 Wydawnictwo: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415744096
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 252
Data wydania: 2014-05-01
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This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. It seeks answers to the following questions: In what ways did the city come into existence? What changes to property rights are oil prospecting, explorations, and production introducing in the 21st century? How do the effects vary across different social classes and spectrums? To what extent are local and national institutions able to shape, restrain, and constrain trans-national oil-related accumulation and its effects on property in land, property in housing (residential, leisure, and commercial), and property in labour? How do these processes connect with the entire urban system in Ghana? This book shows how institutions of varying degrees of power interact to govern land, housing, and labour in the city, and analyses how efficient, sustainable, and equitable the outcomes of these interactions are. It is a comprehensive account of the tensions and contradictions in the main sectors of the urban economy, society, and environment in the booming Oil City and will be of interest to urban economists, development economists, real estate economists, Africanists and urbanists. "A well-written book that analyses oil cities and their potential development impacts from a heterodox perspective. Obeng-Odoom focuses on the small and unknown twin-city of Sekondi-Takoradi to elicit how geologic resources, such as oil and gas, contribute the fiscal resources for social and economic change in new oil cities. This central argument is couched within the context of how human agency, in the form of unions, ensures a fairer distribution of the outcomes of development. This book is a must-read for intellectuals interested in how urban and rural development in the global periphery are grounded in alternative political-economic and ecological frameworks." Ian E.A. Yeboah, Professor of Geography, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA "This is a penetrating analysis of how a fortuitous resource endowment impacts on a developing economy. It shows that having oil resources creates major tensions - social, environmental and political - as well as potential economic benefits. Obeng-Odoom's book carefully reviews the evidence, drawing on useful currents of political economic analysis. It also proposes policies that could yield better outcomes. The book is warmly recommended to all who want to learn the lessons from the Ghanaian experience." Frank Stilwell, Professor Emeritus in Political Economy, The University of Sydney, Australia

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