Ghana
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.
8 books
Start here
- Emerging AfricaSteven Radelet, 2010
- Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development StatisticsMorten Jerven, 2013
- Cocoa and Chaos in GhanaGwendolyn Mikell, 1989
Books 8
Polly Hill · 1963 · Classic fieldwork proving African farmers were rational capitalist investors.
Gwendolyn Mikell · 1989 · How marketing-board pricing destroyed the country's main export industry.
Donald Rothchild · 1991 · The Rawlings structural adjustment, the reference case for African reform.
Steven Radelet · 2010 · Ghana as lead exhibit in the case for African growth turnarounds.
Morten Jerven · 2013 · Ghana's 2010 GDP rebasing is the central case; read before trusting any African macro series.
Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jeffrey Herbst, Dickie Davis · 2017 · Operator-facing handbook on governance and growth constraints across the continent.
Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, Georges Desvaux · 2018 · McKinsey survey of operating companies; Ghana appears among the consumer-market cases.
Carol Off · 2006 · The West African cocoa chain, including the Ghanaian marketing board model.