Dr Botchwey's Profile

Research and Publications

Research Interests

  1. Natural resource extraction and environment; social policy and education; informal sector; income security; governance; rule of law and accountability.

Research Projects Completed

  1. Botchwey, G (2019) Roll-out of Compliance Monitoring System--Permit Holder Survey, Research Report, (EU-ARAP), Accra. (unpublished report).

Publications

  1. Crawford, G and Botchwey, G (2020) Ghana: Controversy, Corruption and Chinese Miners, In: Verbrugge, Boris, Geenen, Sara (Eds.) (2020) Global Gold Production Touching Ground: Expansion, Informalization, and Technological Innovation, London, Palgrave Macmillan (Chapter 10).
  2. Nicholas Loubere, Jixia Lu, Gordon Crawford, Gabriel Botchwey (2019) Unequal Extractions: Reconceptualizing the Chinese Miner in Ghana, LABOUR, Capital and Society, Special Issue, Volume 49, Numéro/Number 2, 2019.
  3. Botchwey, G and Crawford, G (2019), Lifting the lid on Ghana’s illegal small-scale mining problem, The Conversation, 25 September 2019. (http://theconversation.com)
  4. Botchwey, G, Crawford, G, Loubere, N and Lu, J (2018) South-South Irregular Migration: The Impacts of China’s Informal Gold Rush in Ghana, International Migration, (doi: 10.1111/imig.12518)
  5. Botchwey, G and Crawford, G (2018) Resource politics and the impact of Chinese involvement in small-scale mining in Ghana, Africa 88 (4) 2018: 867–70, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972018000517.
  6. Ray Bush, Yao Graham, Leo Zeilig, Ray Bush, Yao Graham, Leo Zeilig, Peter Lawrence, Giuliano Martiniello, Ben Fine, Max Ajl, Bettina Engels, Gordon Crawford & Gabriel Botchwey (2018) Radical political economy and industrialisation in Africa: ROAPE/Third World Network-Africa Connections workshop, held in Accra, Ghana, 13–14 November 2017, Review of African Political Economy, 45:156, 267-334, DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2018.1497131.
  7. Botchwey, G, Crawford, G, Loubere, N and Lu, J (2018) South-South labour migration and the impact of the informal China-Ghana gold rush 2008–13, WIDER Working Paper 16/2018, UNU-WIDER 2018.
  8. (https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/south-south-labour-migration-and-impact-informal-china-ghana-gold-rush-2008%E2%80%9313).
  9. Botchwey, G (2017) Public Expectations in Local Governance? Unit Committees under Ghana’s Decentralised System, Ghana Journal of Development Studies,Vol. 14, No. 1, May, 2017, Pp.166-187. (See: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/gjds/article/view/156494/146105).
  10. Crawford, G and Botchwey, G (2017) Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining: Chinese miners and the state in Ghana, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (FCCP), http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2017.1283479.
  11. Botchwey, G and Crawford, G (2016) Impact of Small-scale Mining on Education and Livelihoods in Ghana, International Journal of Educational Leadership, Volume 7, Number 1, June 2016, Pp:105-116.
  12. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305266977_Botchwey_G_and_Crawford_G_2016_Impact_of_Small-scale_Mining_on_Education_and_Livelihoods_in_Ghana )
  13. Crawford, G and Botchwey, G (2016) Foreign involvement in small-scale gold mining in Ghana and its impact on ‘resource fairness’, in: Pichler et al. (eds), Fairness and Justice in Resource Politics, Routledge, Chapter 11.(See:https://www.routledge.com/Fairness-and-Justice-in-Natural-Resource-Politics/Pichler-Staritz-Kublbock-Plank-Raza-Peyre/p/book/9781138195950).
  14. Botchwey, G (2014) Granting Voice without Power? An Interrogation of Ghana’s Decentralisation Conundrum. The Social Educator, Vol. 4, Issue 2, pp.64-84.
  15. Botchwey, G (2014) Challenging our Simplistic Notions of Community? A Snapshot of Dynamics and Livelihood Struggles from Dumase Community, Ghana. Ghana Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.14-32.
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Botchwey, G and Crawford, G
Fourth Social Science Conference. University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. March 15-17. 2016

Paper presented:
Chinese Involvement in Small-scale Gold Mining in Ghana: Resource (Un)-fairness with Institutional Blessing?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Botchwey, G
CODESRIA South-South Institute. Durban, South Africa September 11-18, 2015

Paper presented:
Reaching the Poor or the 'Well-connected'? Social Policy Targeting under Ghana's School Feeding Programme.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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