The Politics of Government-Business Relations in Ghana, 1982-2008 [electronic resource] /
Opoku, D.author.
Since the early 1980s, the World Bank, backed by aid donor countries, has been involved in a determined effort to stimulate capitalist growth in Africa by prescribing a set of orthodox, neoliberal economic policies. Using Ghana as a case study, this book considers why this is the case.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ghanaian entrepreneurs and Ghanaian governments -- The first eighteen months of PNDC rule -- The achievements and limitations of economic reform -- Strains in government-business relations, 1983-1991 -- Government-business relations in the democratic era -- The changing face of Ghanaian business : the rise of P/NDC stalwarts -- NDC-business relations : the case of Brong-Ahafo -- Constraints of the institutional environment on capitalist expansion -- The theoretical implications of Ghana's experience.
Since the early 1980s, the World Bank, backed by aid donor countries, has been involved in a determined effort to stimulate capitalist growth in Africa by prescribing a set of orthodox, neoliberal economic policies. Using Ghana as a case study, this book considers why this is the case.
Ethnology-Africa.
Business.
Management science.
Economic policy.
Africa-Politics and government.
Political science.
International relations.
African Culture.
Business and Management, general.
Development Policy.
African Politics.
Political Science.
International Relations.