TY - JOUR
T1 - Curbing illicit financial out-flow from Africa
T2 - the phenomenology of institutions in Ghana
AU - Kuditchar, Nene Lomotey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Institute of Social and Economic Research.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Transactions of illicit financial out flow (IFoF) in Africa and elsewhere are steeped in secrecy and controversy. They are also burdened by normativism in research; consequently, the likely dimensions of their instrumental worth has not received much attention. Using relativism and institutional phenomenology, focusing on Ghana, this paper attempts to tease out the nature of transactions around IFoF regulatory state institutions. Findings from elite elicitation interviews and secondary data show that IFoF in Ghana is high and enabled by a shadowy network of transactions between state agencies and regulated entities with the implication of a blurred and porous boundary between the two sectors. This suggests that the legal system of state regulatory agencies has been short circuited and their mandates tamed as a result. These findings call for further investigation into how, inter alia, the politics of IFoF induced transactions between state agencies and the private sector is maintained.
AB - Transactions of illicit financial out flow (IFoF) in Africa and elsewhere are steeped in secrecy and controversy. They are also burdened by normativism in research; consequently, the likely dimensions of their instrumental worth has not received much attention. Using relativism and institutional phenomenology, focusing on Ghana, this paper attempts to tease out the nature of transactions around IFoF regulatory state institutions. Findings from elite elicitation interviews and secondary data show that IFoF in Ghana is high and enabled by a shadowy network of transactions between state agencies and regulated entities with the implication of a blurred and porous boundary between the two sectors. This suggests that the legal system of state regulatory agencies has been short circuited and their mandates tamed as a result. These findings call for further investigation into how, inter alia, the politics of IFoF induced transactions between state agencies and the private sector is maintained.
KW - Africa
KW - Ghana
KW - Illicit financial out-Flow
KW - institutional phenomenology
KW - relativism
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U2 - 10.1080/02589001.2020.1849581
DO - 10.1080/02589001.2020.1849581
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097398764
SN - 0258-9001
VL - 39
SP - 56
EP - 69
JO - Journal of Contemporary African Studies
JF - Journal of Contemporary African Studies
IS - 1
ER -