Ghana (1)
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- Created on: 26-05-16 10:14
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- Ghana
- Location
- West Coast of Africa
- Between Cote D'Ivoire and Togo
- Gulf of Guinea
- Recent rapid economic development
- 2 Large rivers
- Black Volta
- White Volta
- Producer of petroleum and natural gas
- Largest gold and diamond producer
- Second largest producer of cocoa
- 3 climate zones
- Hot + wet - south west
- Warm + dry - south east
- Hot + dry - seasonal rainfall - North & East
- West Coast of Africa
- Colonialism
- C15th Portuguese traders established Portuguese gold coast in West Africa
- The Dutch, Danish, Germans and Swedish set up trading venues along coast
- Forts and casltes
- British took control - 1874- called British Gold Coast
- Accra established as captial
- money invested in schools, roads and railways and communications
- Cocoa tree introduced in 1878 as cash crop
- Ghana became one of the leading producers within 50yrs
- Gained independence in 1957
- Democracy - over 18s allowed to vote
- Urgent need for manufacture industries to develop
- Democracy - over 18s allowed to vote
- Remained mostly substance agriculture and mining
- Neo- colonialism (dependency)
- Ghana has wealth of natural resources
- Recently made links with MNCs and China to develop trade and exports
- Digital based manufacturing plants built to produce tablets and smart phones
- MNCs stimulated economy- new jobs
- including mining, petroleum, telecommunications, banking- MNT, Vodafone, Guinness, Unilever and Zain
- Ghana set up own telecoms MNC- rig communications
- Cocoa farming
- Links to MNCs
- 720,000 cocoa farmers
- 2008 Cadbury set up Ghana Cocoa partnership
- investing £45 million over 45 years
- Globalisation
- Ghana's Takoradi Harbour built in 1928
- helped develop one of the worlds fastest growing shipping industries
- Recently GDP increased rapidly
- by 14% in 2011, 8.7% 2012
- Mainly due to links with other countries around the world
- Recently adopted an economic plan
- Ghana vision
- Aims to get Ghana accepted as MEDC but first as an NIC
- made deal with China in exchange for HEP
- Cargo built cocoa producing plant
- Ghana's Takoradi Harbour built in 1928
- Location
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