Author: T. E. AninPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Essays on the Political Economy of Ghana
Author: T. E. AninPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Essays on the Political Economy of Ghana
Author: Kwaku Osei-HwediePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa
Author: Robert H. BatesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520060142
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy which can also be labeled the collective-choice school. The data are drawn from Africa. The book extends the methods of reasoning developed in collective choice from their original base-the advanced industrial democracies-to new territory; the literature on rural Africa. Such as extension challenges the power of this form of political economy. It also enriches it, for the central questions which motivate the contemporary study of political economy are often addressed with unique clarity in the scholarship on rural Africa.
Essays on the Political Economy of Africa
Author: Giovanni ArrighiPublisher: New York : Monthly Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Strong democracy, weak state
Author: Resnick, DaniellePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
What are the political and institutional prerequisites for pursuing policies that contribute to structural transformation? This paper addresses this question by focusing on Ghana, which has achieved sustained economic growth in recent decades and is broadly lauded for its environment of political pluralism, respect for human rights, free and fair elections, and vocal civil society. Yet, despite these virtues, Ghana remains unable to achieve substantial structural transformation as identified as changes in economic productivity driven by value-added within sectors and shifts in the allocation of labor between sectors. This paper argues that Ghana is strongly democratic but plagued by weak state capacity, and these politico-institutional characteristics have shaped the economic policies pursued, including in the agricultural sector, and the resultant development trajectory. Specifically, three political economy factors have undermined Ghana’s ability to achieve substantive structural transformation since then. First, democracy has enabled a broader range of interest groups to permeate policymaking decisions, often resulting in policy backtracking and volatility as well as fiscal deficits around elections that, among other things, stifle credit access for domestic business through high interest rates. Secondly, public sector reforms were not pursued with the same vigor as macroeconomic reforms, meaning that the state has lacked the capacity typically necessary to identify winning industries or to actively facilitate the transition to higher value-added sectors. Thirdly, successive governments, regardless of party, have failed to actively invest in building strong, productive relationships with the private sector, which is a historical legacy of the strong distrust and alienation of the private sector that characterized previous government administrations.
Essays in the Public Philosophy of Development: Studies in the political economy of Africa
Author: Pius Nwabufo C. OkigboPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Essays on the Political Economy of Public Good Provision in Developing Countries
Author: Afua Branoah BanfulPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The second chapter focuses on a comparison of the relationship between social divisions and access to public goods in rural Ghana before and after the government institution investigated in chapter one. The evidence shows that the intervention which made large amounts of funds automatically available to local government reduces the role of population heterogeneity in access to public goods. In the third chapter, I present an empirical analysis similar to that in Chapter two using data from villages in the neighboring northern Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. I find that more homogeneous populations tend to have better access to public goods in the education sector. However, some public goods may have been transformed to club goods and so are positively correlated with population heterogeneity.
The State, Development and Politics in Ghana
Author: Emmanuel HansenPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9781870784054
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This collection of ten essays focuses and analyses Ghana's political, economic, agrarian and social development. The authors are all Ghanaian scholars, and they reflect on their country's experience from different perspectives, providing an indigenous voice to the debate about the country's development. The subjects covered are the state, capital and labour relations 1961-1987; from GTP to Assene: aspects of industrial working class struggles 1982-1986; women's political organizations 1951-1987; changing relations between the IMF and the Government of Ghana 1960-1987; financial intermediation and economic development; trends in foreign policy after Nkrumah; the land question since the 1950s; the state and food agriculture; policies and politics of export agriculture; and the problems of the health care delivery system.
The Political Economy of the Gold Coast and Ghana
Author: Stephen Herbert HymerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
African Time
Author: Lord Mawuko-YevugahPublisher: Authorhouse UK
ISBN: 1481797484
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
AFRICAN TIME In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Lord Mawuko-Yevugah explores the challenges of political reform and democratic governance in Africa at the beginning of the 21st century, focusing largely on Ghana's experience. The inspiration for the title of the collection, AFRICAN TIME, comes from Kwame Nkrumah's pan-African optimism as well as from recent discourses around "African Renaissance", "Africa's Century", "Africa Rising", etc. At Ghana's founding in 1957, Nkrumah proclaimed: 'Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world...That new African is ready to fi ght his own battles and show that after all, the black man is capable of managing his own affairs'. That historic declaration, Mawuko-Yevugah argues, did not only set the tone and direction for Ghana's pan-African foreign policy but it has also made the country a reference point for Africa's postcolonial tragedy in the form of political instability and economic decay. Exploring Ghana's recent strides in democratic consolidation within the context of fresh attempts to reinvent pan-Africanism and mainstream good governance on the continental development agenda, this book offers incisive, critical and a rare refl ection on the changing landscape of contemporary African politics and governance through the eyes of a political journalist.