Resource curse or blessing in Africa’s oil cities? Empirical evidence from Sekondi-Takoradi, West Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21200564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franklin Obeng‐odoom (0000-0003-3997-7751, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author), Franklin Obeng-Odoom |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 229-240 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | City Culture and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1877-9166 • E-ISSN: 1877-9174 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ccs.2013.07.001 |
| OpenAlex | W2109978464 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 46 |
Archaeology · Blessing · Curse · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Natural resource · Political science · Resource curse · Sociology · Anthropology · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Natural Resources and Economic Development
Spatio-Temporal Differentiation and Driving Mechanism of the “Resource Curse” of the Cultivated Land in Main Agricultural Production Regions
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa
Blue growth and blue justice
Oiling the wheels of sub-national development
Extractive resource ownership and the subnational resource curse
Oil, fish, and livelihoods
Actors, networks and assemblages
Land use/cover change in Ghana’s oil city
From Gold Coast to Ghana
Infrastructural violence and urban development in African cities
Spatial and social transformations in a secondary city
Transnational Corporations and Urban Development
Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana
Linkages in Ghana's gold mining industry
A Staple Theory of Economic Growth
Addressing the Natural Resource Curse
The curse of natural resources
Railway Workers and the P.N.D.C. Government in Ghana, 1982–90
Accra
The New Imperialism
Ghana
A Perspective of Economic Geography
The Politics and Ideology of Urban Development in Iraq’s Oil City
Kuwait’s Modern Spectacle
The Oil City in Focus
The Oil Town of Ahmadi since 1946
Gaborone
Exploring the connections
Oil Development on Traditional Lands of Indigenous Peoples
The Resource Curse and Oil Revenues in Angola and Venezuela
Booming Sector and De-Industrialisation in a Small Open Economy
An Economic Study of the City of London
Shaping the Urban Life of Oil in Bahrain
Colonial Ambition, Common Sense Thinking, and the Making of Takoradi Harbor, Gold Coast
Political economic origins of Sekondi-Takoradi, West Africa’s new oil city
Gender and Economic Ideologies
Boomtowns, Resource Dependence and Socio-economic Well-being
The State of African Cities 2008
The New Urban Frontier
Oil, Politics, and Ghana’s Democracy
The politics of oil in Uganda
Adjustment and decentralization in Ghana
New Globalism, New Urbanism
Visual ethnography
Mobile workers, modernist narratives
Fueling Capitalism
Saving Ghana from Its Oil
Birth of a market town in Tanzania
Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana
After the Rush
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |