Economies After Colonialism: Ghana and the Struggle for Power

ISBN-13: 9781108426145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 378 str.

Lindsay Whitfield

Opis

Mapping Ghana's struggle to transform its economy after independence, this original interpretation highlights the economic difficulties associated with the political legacies of colonialism.

Recenzje

'This book makes an exceptionally lucid and wide-ranging contribution to the literature the political economy of Ghanaian development, representing the distillation of over a decade of research by Whitfield on Ghana's puzzling lack of economic transformation. By examining the challenges to economic development in a country with a relatively positive trajectory of democratic governance, Whitfield's analysis resonates far beyond Ghana, raising crucial questions about how democracy and economic development might be achieved in tandem … This book is essential reading for all those concerned with understanding why structural transformation has proved such an intractable challenge in Ghana, and what this implies for the prospects for development in postcolonial African states more broadly.' Tom Goodfellow, University of Sheffield

Spis treści

1. Ghanaian political economy and the politics of industrial policy; 2. Origins of competitive clientelism and weak domestic capitalists; 3. Return to competitive clientelism in the fourth republic; 4. Economic growth, but maintaining the colonial trading economy; 5. Challenges to diversifying exports: accessing global markets and learning to learn; 6. Challenges to modernizing agro-processing: struggles over inputs, organizing smallholders, and enforcing contracts; 7. NPP government and the not so 'Golden Age of Business'; 8. NDC II Government and managing the new oil wealth.