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A snapshot of Ghana shows it as a Western African country neighbored by Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, and the Gulf of Guinea. Lake Volta, the largest artificial lake in the world, is entirely in Ghana. The country practices a constitutional democratic system of government, with a president as the head of government and head of state. The country is also multiparty state with two dominant parties, known as New Patriotic Party (NPP, being the strongest opposition) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC, the ruling party). Ghana is a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU), with a mixed economic system that includes some private financial freedom, combined with weak centralized economic planning and government regulation.
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Spillan, J.E., King, D.O. (2017). Current Business Environment. In: Doing Business In Ghana. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54771-8_2
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