The Economy of Ghana 50 Years of Economic Development
The book follows a first edition published in 1989, which focused on the severe economic crisis Ghana faced during the late 1970s and the early 1980s. In this second edition, the authors extend the review up to the mid-2010s, covering the entire period si
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Mozammel Huq with Michael Tribe
The Economy of Ghana
Mozammel Huq • Michael Tribe
The Economy of Ghana 50 Years of Economic Development
Mozammel Huq Department of Economics University of Strathclyde Glasgow, UK
Michael Tribe Department of Economics University of Strathclyde Glasgow, UK
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Preface to the Second Edition
The original edition of this book was written at a time when Ghana was passing through a severe economic crisis, and I therefore had the opportunity of focusing on that theme. Indeed, the key findings which had emerged and featured strongly in the book (and which were presented in various seminars and discussions) appeared highly critical at the time. Fortunately, these findings later became almost conventional wisdom. Ghana of the mid-2010s is a completely different country to what it was during the mid-1980s when the original volume was completed. Understandably, given the long period of some six decades that the present study now covers, and also the complete turn of events that the country has witnessed in its economic policy, this new volume is much more than the usual second edition, necessitating significant new material. From 1982 to 1984, on secondment from the David Livingstone Institute (DLI) of Strathclyde University, I was based at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), now called the Institute for Development Stu
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