Natural Resource Curse and Political Commitment: evidence from Botswana and Ghana

Natural Resource Curse and Political Commitment: evidence from Botswana and Ghana

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Danaa Nantogmah

resource curse, political commitment, MIDPC index, civic-conscience, principal component analysis

The article employed principal component analysis (PCA) technique to construct a Multidimensional Political Commitment Index (MIDPC Index) to measure government commitment to prudent natural resource governance. It finds that except for economic diversification, Botswana exhibits very strong government commitment to resource governance, fiscal sustainability and social impact, while Ghana displays evidence of very weak government commitment in resource governance indices, fiscal sustainability indices and social impact indices but a very strong commitment to economic diversification albeit this index is on a declining trajectory. Additionally, it finds that Botswana’s success in escaping the resource curse might largely be credited to the civic-conscience approach (Botho) imbued in Batswana culture, existence and adherence to national vision, civic-conscience leadership; while Ghana remains a resource curse trapped nation because of the absence of national culture and national vision, excessive partisanship without a national development plan, civic-conscience deficiency in leadership with high levels of rent-seeking.

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"Natural Resource Curse and Political Commitment: evidence from Botswana and Ghana", IJNRD - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (www.IJNRD.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no.b902-b920, August-2023, Available :https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2308203.pdf

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Research Area: Social Science and Humanities 

Country: Accra , Greater Accra, Ghana

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