Economic Reforms in Ghana
The Miracle and the Mirage
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2100
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-85255-163-9 (ISBN)
Description
Since independence in 1957, Ghana has tried a number of approaches to achieving acceptable rates of growth and development. A period of rapid industrialization in the 1960s, then control measures and further state interventions inthe 1970s, was followed by a comprehensive programme from the mid-1980s based on a policy of economic liberalization. However, initial growth and macroeconomic stability has not been sustained beyond the short term. Examining reforms since 1957 this book includes sections on: structure and growth; fiscal, savings and investment policies; the external sector; factor markets; sectoral performance; socio-economic development; and the future of Ghana's economy.
North America: Africa World Press; Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services
North America: Africa World Press; Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-163-9 (9780852551639)
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Jane Harrigan | Machiko Nissanke | Ernest Aryeetey
Economic Reforms in Ghana
The Miracle and the Mirage
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09/2000
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Content
Part 1 Macroeconomics, structure and growth: a review of macroeconomic and sectoral policies and growth; the political economy of reform; fragile still? the structure of Ghana's economy, 1960-1994; a social accounting matrix of the economy of Ghana. Part 2 Fiscal, savings and investment policies: fiscal trends in Ghana; public expenditures and their performance;an assessment of savings and investment. Part 3 The external sector: exchange rate policy and the balance of payments; the external trade sector; external finance, foreign aid and debt. Part 4 Factor markets: intervention and liberalization - changing policies and performance in the financial sector; labour under structural adjustment. Part 5 Sectoral performance: industrial sector policies and performance; agricultural sector policies and performance. Part 6 Socio-economic development: the evolution of social policy; poverty in the changing environment; gender participation under economic reforms. Part 7 The way forward: structural adjustments and after - which way forward?