Lindsay Whitfield

Economies after Colonialism

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 705g
• ISBN-13: 9781108426145
• ISBN-10: 110842614X
• Artikelnr.: 50446654

Autorenporträt

Lindsay Whitfield is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde Universitet, Denmark. She is the author of The Politics of African Industrial Policy: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2015), The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors (2008), and Turning Points in African Democracy (2008). She is also the current co-editor of African Affairs (one of the leading journals in African studies).

Inhaltsangabe

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.