As one of the top producers of gold in the world, gold mining in Ghana and the effects of it have led to a direct impact on rural income and living standards highlighting calls for mining tax bills to be higher than the total losses of the affected agricultural workers and distributed in a fair way, and for mining companies to reduce their environmental impact to minimise pollution.
As a result of the findings, Professor Aragon and Professor Rud have been invited by the IGC office in Ghana to attend a dissemination event with local academics and policy makers in the summer.
http://www.theigc.org/sites/default/files/Aragon%20and%20Rud%20final.pdf
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