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    An examination of economic benefits expectations from Mining activities by fringe communities in Ghana- case Study of Edikan Perseus Mining Ghana limited – Ayanfuri.
    (KNUST, 2016-08) AGBEKEY, STANLEY TEDDY-BLAY
    In the recent times, the doubt about why Mining Companies are under increasing pressure, from the members of fringe communities in addressing economic expectations and life transforming relevant issues due to a perceived nature of the mining companies’ inability to honour the said expectations. This sometimes leads to conflicts usually perceived to have been driven by community genuine demands on lack of employment, non-payment of compensations, unfulfilled promises, unfair management and sharing of community resources, and the very meaning of ‘‘development’. This usually results in community upraising, preventing mines workers through illegal road blockade to work, vandalising of mines properties and also chasing out of mines workers living in these communities hence, a loss of man-hour which affects production output and revenue. Arguably, these indications should not to be allowed to spill over into our fringe communities which could hinder development due to the denier of direct foreign investments aid in contributing so much to Employments and the coshing of macroeconomics factors. In the light of this background, the study seeks to examine the economic expectations of the people in the fringe communities, examine economic value additions fringe communities gained so far, examine the respondent opinions of overall economic and social performances in the fringe communities, examine the causes of the persistent conflicts between the mines and the fringe communities and to examine the existing arrangements for equitable distributions of economic benefits. To achieve these objectives, the deductive research approach was employed. I conducted a survey to obtain data, used a descriptive survey for the analysis and held panel discussions. Non –probability sampling was used to sample the various communities and/or the research population by employing purposive sampling. It was found out that lack of employment and lack of education are the major cause of the conflicts.