book
Ghana’s economic and agricultural transformation: Past performance and future prospects
2019 | Pages: 309
Publisher(s): international food policy research institute (ifpri)oxford university press
Open Access | CC BY-NC-ND-4.0
Citation
Diao, Xinshen; Hazell, Peter B.R.; Kolavalli, Shashidhara; and Resnick, Danielle (Eds.). 2019. Ghana’s economic and agricultural transformation: Past performance and future prospects. New York, NY: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780198845348
Ghana’s Economic and Agricultural Transformation: Past Performance and Future Prospects explores the challenges and opportunities of Africa’s transformation through an integrated economic and political analysis. Using Ghana as a case study, a wide range of primary and secondary data used to look at the potential of urbanization, the role of public investments, government support for value chain development, and government commitment to agriculture sector transformation. Agriculture offers real options for transformation, and this book examines the viability of those options given political-economy constraints, past investment decisions, and the broader global environment in which Ghana, and Africa, must now compete.
Downloadable Chapters
- Introduction [download]
- Ghana’s economy-wide transformation: Past patterns and future prospects [download]
- Strong democracy, weak state: The political economy of Ghana’s stalled structural transformation [download]
- Ghana’s agricultural transformation: Past patterns and sources of change [download]
- Urbanization and its impact on Ghana’s rural transformation [download]
- Agricultural transformation in the savannah: Perspectives from the village [download]
- Public expenditure on agriculture and its impact [download]
- Developing agricultural value chains [download]
- Unleashing the power of mechanization [download]
- Future prospects [download]