This is a book dealing with the big questions about development:
. What is development?
. Can Third World countries ever hope to 'catch up'?
. Can a development path be found that avoids indefinite impoverishment on the one hand, and environmental destruction on the other?
. What is the relationship, if any, between economic growth and political development?
. Can a country that has failed hitherto create for itself a second chance?
In their wide-ranging and insightful exploration, the authors take as their main examples two contrasting countries: Ghana, the first African...