Ghana’s Bui Hydropower Dam and Linkage Creation Challenges

IF 1.1 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI:10.1080/08039410.2020.1858953

Kwame Adovor Tsikudo

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract This study examines the issues of linkage development pertaining to the Bui Hydropower Dam. 1 Completed in 2013, the 400-megawatt hydropower facility was touted by the government to catalyse Ghana’s socio-economic transformation. However, while the Chinese contractor delivered the physical edifice to the Ghanaian government, the dam’s material benefits have yet to materialize. The inability to instigate economic linkages from the project has sparked debate in research and policy circles in Ghana. While some scholars reference local factors, others cite external elements, including the demands of Chinese actors and financiers as the cause of the limited economic linkages the dam created in the Ghanaian economy. This paper explores these counterpropositions. Drawing from exploratory mixed-method research, the paper asserts that although linkage creation is mediated by internal and external factors, the former is more salient when it comes to engagement with China.

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加纳布伊水电站大坝和建立联系的挑战

本研究考察了与布伊水电站大坝相关的联动发展问题。1在2013年完工，400兆瓦的水电设施被政府吹捧为催化加纳的社会经济转型。然而，尽管中国承包商向加纳政府交付了实体建筑，但大坝的物质效益尚未显现。该项目无法促成经济联系，这在加纳的研究和政策圈引发了辩论。虽然一些学者认为是当地因素，但也有人认为是外部因素，包括中国参与者和金融家的要求，导致了大坝在加纳经济中造成的有限经济联系。本文对这些反命题进行了探讨。通过探索性混合方法研究，本文认为，虽然联系的建立是由内部和外部因素介导的，但在与中国接触时，前者更为突出。

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1.80

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Forum for Development Studies was established in 1974, and soon became the leading Norwegian journal for development research. While this position has been consolidated, Forum has gradually become an international journal, with its main constituency in the Nordic countries. The journal is owned by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Norwegian Association for Development Research. Forum aims to be a platform for development research broadly defined – including the social sciences, economics, history and law. All articles are double-blind peer-reviewed. In order to maintain the journal as a meeting place for different disciplines, we encourage authors to communicate across disciplinary boundaries. Contributions that limit the use of exclusive terminology and frame the questions explored in ways that are accessible to the whole range of the Journal''s readership will be given priority.