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Author Killick, Tony

Title Development Economics in Action : a Study of Economic Policies in Ghana
Edition 2nd ed
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (544 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Development Economics, v. 79
Routledge Studies in Development Economics, v. 79
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface to second edition; Preface to first edition; Part I: 196072; 1 Introduction; 2 Development, disequilibrium and state interventionism; 3 The economic strategies of Nkrumah and his successors; 4 Domestic economic performance in the 1960s; 5 External performance: The foreign exchange constraint and its causes; 6 Planning, saving and economic management; 7 Modernization without growth; 8 The unbalanced growth of agriculture and industry; 9 The state as entrepreneur; 10 The state as controller
11 After Nkrumah: Interpretations of policies, 19667212 Lessons from 196072; Part II: 19722008; Introduction to the new chapters; 13 From implosion to boom: 19722008; 14 Structural change: 19702008; 15 Forces for change: 19832008; Bibliography of works cited; Additional works cited for the second edition; Index
Summary Presents a study of policies in Ghana, one of Africa's closely watched economies. This title includes three chapters providing an account of 1978-2008
Notes Print version record
Subject Economic development -- Ghana -- Case studies
Economic development
Economic policy
SUBJECT Ghana -- Economic policy
Subject Ghana
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203852019
020385201X