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Critical Corporate Governance and CSR
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Critical Corporate Governance and CSR

by Sharif Mahmud Khalid
November 2025
Intermediate
104 pages
3h 51m
English
De Gruyter
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Chapter 2 Ghana’s Political, Economic and Social Background

2.1 Introduction

Ghana was a British colony until 1957. Today, it is an independent sovereign state with a population of about 27 million people (according to the latest population census in 2010). Within the West African sub-region, Ghana occupies a landmass of 238, 535 kilometres squared. Administratively, it is a democracy encompassing three arms of government: the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. Ghana practises the presidential system and has within its possession 16 administrative capitals. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the South, Burkina Faso to the North, Ivory Coast to the West and Togo to the East. There are diverse cultures and multiplicities of ...

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