Includes index.

Contents: The Laws of Ghana -- An Overview of the legal framework for foreign direct investment: Introduction -- Investment-specific laws -- General and business laws affecting investment -- Establishing business entities: Introduction -- Companies -- External companies -- Partnerships -- Other business entities -- Labour and employment: Introduction -- Constitutional provisions -- The Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651) -- Wrongful dismissal -- Employment of women, young persons and children -- Health, welfare and safety of workers -- Workmen's compensation law, 1987 (PNDCL 187) -- Social Security Law, 1991 (PNDCL 247) -- Employment of non-Ghanaians -- Taxation: Introduction -- Direct taxation -- Double taxation -- Capital gains tax -- Indirect taxation -- Value added tax -- The Tax regime of the Ghana stock exchange -- Investment and environment: Introduction -- The Environmental Protection Agency -- Enforcement and control -- Environmental permits -- Environmental impact assessment -- Pesticides -- The Ghana investment Promotion Centre Act, 1994 (Act 478): Introduction -- Current policy -- An Overview -- Restrictions on foreign direct investment -- The Transfer of technology -- Mandatory clauses -- Investing in free zones: Introduction -- An Overview of the free zone Act (Act 504) as amended -- The Free zone concept in Ghana -- Free zone developers -- Free zone enterprises -- Import and export within free zones -- The Role of customs, exercise and preventive service -- Employment in free zones -- Incentives and benefits -- The Free zone board -- The Securities industry: The Legal framework -- The Securities and exchange commission -- Establishing a stock exchange -- Dealers and investment advisers -- Trading in securities -- The Ghana Stock Exchange -- Listing on the Ghana stock exchange -- Provisional listing -- Listing of external companies -- Dealing in securities by external residents -- Takeover and mergers -- Unit trusts and mutual funds -- Unit trusts -- Mutual funds -- Spread of investment of unit trusts and mutual funds -- Supervising the securities industry -- Expropriation under Ghanaian law: Introduction -- International minimum expropriation -- Expropriation and law-making process -- Expropriation and the Ghana Investment Promotion Cemtre Act -- Expropriation under the free zone Act -- International law and the protection of investments in Ghana: International law and investment in Ghana -- The Constitution and international treaties -- The Multilateral investment guarantee agency (MIGA) -- Investment promotion and protection agreements -- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR): Introduction -- Definitions -- The Development of ADR in Ghana -- Court connected ADR -- Consent judgements -- ADR and labour -- The Arbitration Act, 1961 (Act 38) -- The Ghana arbitration centre -- The Ghana Association of Chartered mediators and administrators (GHACMA) -- The International centre for the settlement of investment disputes (ICSID) -- The United Nations Commission on International trade law (UNCITRAL) -- Investment promotion and protection agreements -- Dispute resolution: Introduction -- Ghana's judicial system -- The Independece of the judiciary -- The Superior courts -- Lower courts -- Court proceedings -- The Law governing contracts -- Enforcement of foreign judgements -- Applying foreign law in Ghanaian courts -- The Securities industry -- Transparency in business dealings: Introduction -- Transparency and the constitution -- The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice -- The Serious Fraud Office -- Initiatives by civil society -- Ghana integrity initiative (GH) -- Ghana's comparative advantage: Introduction -- Political and macroeconomics stability -- The Securities industry -- The New partnership for Africa's development (NEPAD) -- Financial guarantees -- Fiscal incentives -- Access to markets -- Labour -- Infrastructure and strategic interventions -- The Legal and regulatory framework -- Conclusion.