Ashanti Goldfields Company (Ashanti) was a small gold mining company until Ghana's implementation of the economic recovery programme in 1983. Subsequently, Ashanti was transformed into a multinational gold mining company, with six producing mines in four African countries and seven major exploration projects and publicly listed on six international financial markets. The present study shows that Ashanti's globalisation derives from the combined effects of the economic recovery programme, specific government incentives and Ashanti's own business strategies. The study demonstrates how a local company in a low‐income country could utilise opportunities created by government policies to profitably globalise its operations. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Migration and social transformation are major drivers of socio-economic development. Yet, the linkages between social transformation and migration in Ghana are poorly understood. This article seeks to shed light on how social transformation affects or is affected by migration, using mixed methods with transformationalist and social change theoretical lenses. At the same time, there have been retrogressive transformations in the economic conditions, technology and demography have improved and increased, respectively, and political and cultural factors have remained relatively the same over the past decade. Although there is a perceived bi-directional relationship between social transformation and migration, social transformation exerts greater influence on migration than migration has on social transformation except for higher educational attainment and improved household income. Therefore, the relationship between social transformation and migration is not balanced in our study area as the former influences more than the latter.

Migration is a defining feature of agrarian livelihoods across the Global South, particularly in regions characterized by environmental uncertainty, limited state investment in rural development, a...