Lindsay Whitfield

Economies after Colonialism (eBook, PDF)

Ghana and the Struggle for Power

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Despite Ghana's strong democratic track record in recent decades, the economy remains underdeveloped. Industrial policies are necessary to transform the colonial trading economy that Ghana inherited at independence, but successive governments have been unwilling or unable to implement them. In this highly original interpretation, supported by new empirical material, Lindsay Whitfield exposes the reasons for why the Ghanaian economy remains underdeveloped and sets her theory in the wider African context. She offers a new way of thinking about the political economy of Africa that charts a clear path away from defining Africa in terms of neopatrimonial politics and that provides new conceptual tools for addressing what kind of business-state relations are necessary to drive economic development. As a study of Ghana that addresses both the economy and politics from early colonialism to the present day, this is a must-read for any student or scholar interested in the political economy of development in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108571081
• Artikelnr.: 53208250

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.