Oil Flows in Ghana, is the Resource Curse Soon to Follow?

Michael Giberson TAKORADI, Ghana — The impoverished West African nation of Ghana become the world’s newest oil producer Wednesday, pumping crude for the first time from an offshore field worth billions of dollars in the Gulf of Guinea. President John Atta Mills turned the oil valves Wednesday during in an inaugural ceremony broadcast live from a storage vessel …

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