Yankson, Paul, Asiedu, Alex, Owusu, Kwadwo, Urban, Frauke and Siciliano, Giuseppina (2017) 'The Livelihood Challenges of Resettled Communities of the Bui Dam Project in Ghana and the Role of Chinese Dam-Builders.' Development Policy Review, 36 (S1). 0476-0494.
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Abstract
Emerging issues from the Bui hydropower project suggest that the experiences of two earlier hydropower projects in Ghana failed to prevent challenges related to resource access and livelihoods. This article examines the nature of the challenges, their causes, why they were not avoided and the role of the Chinese builders. We conducted 43 interviews and 11 focus group discussions and analyzed qualitative data by themes using narrative analysis. Our findings show that the livelihoods of the resettled communities are, on balance, negatively impacted by the construction of the dam. While Chinese dam‐builders played a major role in financing and enabling the dam's construction, the Ghanaian governance arrangements were found to be more important in addressing the livelihood challenges.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Interdisciplinary Studies > Centre for Development, Environment and Policy Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > School of Finance and Management > Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP) |
| ISSN: | 09506764 |
| Copyright Statement: | © The Authors 2017. Development Policy Review © 2017 Overseas Development Institute This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12259 |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2017 13:53 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/23706 |
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