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** Ghana's oil boom: blessing or curse? **
Ghana wants its new-found oil wealth to benefit the country's people.
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  1. TimJune 8, 2009 at 9:16 AM

    "There are a million lessons that Ghana can learn from Nigeria," says Duncan Clarke, an oil expert at Global Pacific & Partners.

    "From the parking of oil funds abroad, to the direct plundering of state resources and simple corruption, Ghana has plenty of things to avoid," he says.
    Imagine this! See what Nigeria has been reduced to; a metaphor for corruption!

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