Part I - theories of development and decline: development theory and the African experience; the evolution of economic development theory and policy in Ghana; a theory of economic decline. Part II - Ghana's economy in the 20th century: the colonial economy; development in the post-war indigenous state; the political economy of decline 1961-1983. Part III - the failure of cocoa: an economic analysis of the cocoa industry; implications for managing the economic recovery in Ghana.
