This study provides a review of spatial planning in the context of Ghana's socio-economic
development trajectory. Spatial planning has been integral to the economic policies of the …

Rural tourism has been a key research area over the last few decades. However, evaluating
the advancement of its dimensions as a systematic and comprehensive audit was long …

This paper investigates the internal migration dynamics involving women from the Northern
part of Ghana to the South to engage in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)–low-tech …

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 …

Interrogates the narratives of" land grabbing" and" agricultural investment" through detailed
local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications …

Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing
criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescriptions are systematically …

Ghana is urbanising rapidly, and over half of the country's population have lived in urban
areas since 2010. Although research has proliferated to explore Ghana's urbanisation, there …

Abstract The UN-Habitat III has placed secondary cities at the centre of the new urban
agenda, given their roles in global development trajectories in the future. Wa, though a small …

Scholarship that examines obtaining housing in urban Ghana focuses on the role of state
planning or access to financial markets, yet most housing in Ghana is provided outside …

Migrant remittances play an important role in the economic development and the
improvement of household welfare in Ghana. The movement of youth from rural Northern …