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Ghana

Middle East and Africa

Better than it first appears, but all of it is agricultural and fiscal rather than corporate: cocoa pricing, the marketing board, and the Rawlings adjustment programme that became the template for African reform. Nothing on Ghana's oil era or its banking sector.

Books 8Recommenders 1

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  1. Emerging AfricaSteven Radelet, 2010
  2. Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development StatisticsMorten Jerven, 2013
  3. Cocoa and Chaos in GhanaGwendolyn Mikell, 1989
The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern GhanaThe Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana
T2 The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana
Polly Hill · 1963
Open LibraryGoodreads

Classic fieldwork proving African farmers were rational capitalist investors.

Cocoa and Chaos in GhanaCocoa and Chaos in Ghana
T3 Cocoa and Chaos in Ghana
Gwendolyn Mikell · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

How marketing-board pricing destroyed the country's main export industry.

Ghana: The Political Economy of RecoveryGhana: The Political Economy of Recovery
T3 Ghana: The Political Economy of Recovery
Donald Rothchild · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Rawlings structural adjustment, the reference case for African reform.

Emerging AfricaEmerging Africa
T3 Emerging Africa
Steven Radelet · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Ghana as lead exhibit in the case for African growth turnarounds.

Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African DPoor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics
T3 Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics
Morten Jerven · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Ghana's 2010 GDP rebasing is the central case; read before trusting any African macro series.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Making Africa WorkMaking Africa Work
T3 Making Africa Work
Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jeffrey Herbst, Dickie Davis · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Operator-facing handbook on governance and growth constraints across the continent.

Africa's Business RevolutionAfrica's Business Revolution
T3 Africa's Business Revolution
Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, Georges Desvaux · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

McKinsey survey of operating companies; Ghana appears among the consumer-market cases.

Bitter ChocolateBitter Chocolate
T4 Bitter Chocolate
Carol Off · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Cocoa supply chain and child labour behind confectionery majors.

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