Ghana ( political economy).

N. Chazan

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Abstract

Contends that shifts in Ghana's global position are as much an outcome of the interaction of Ghanaians with the Ghanaian state as they are of Ghana with the world economy. The severity of Ghana's position can only be explained by reference to the deflation of state power and the consequent diminution of the relevance of the state to ongoing social, economic, and political exigencies. Reviews the Nkrumah inheritance of innovation and debt, and analyzes the heterogeneous Ghanaian responses to the successive power constellations that followed under Busia, Acheampong, and Rawlings. Finds that these changes have had little effect on the multiple forms that relationships between social groups and the state have taken, from total dependency and collaboration to disengagement, isolation, and withdrawal. Concludes that the main difficulty is changing the bases of the interaction because the possibility of state disintegration is not conductive to capital accumulation, development of an economy, and more equitable distribution.- P.Creese (CDS)

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)94-121
Number of pages28
JournalUnknown Journal
StatePublished - 1984

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