The Ghana Gold Board Bill
Ghana is a well-endowed country. Its resource endowment includes gold. Our resource endowments suggest the socio-economic development needle should be much further ahead than it currently is. When countries like Ghana face economic and fiscal challenges, there is the temptation to question whether resource endowments even matter. It may sound counterintuitive to think there would be a question about the utility of resource endowments for a country. Given the choice, will countries prefer not to...