Download or read book Measuring African Development written by Morten Jerven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chief economist for the World Bank's Africa region, Shanta Devarajan, delivered a devastating assessment of the capacity of African states to measure development in his 2013 article "Africa's Statistical Tragedy". Is there a "statistical tragedy" unfolding in Africa now? If so then examining the roots of the problem of provision of statistics in poor economies is certainly of great importance. This book on measuring African development in the past and in the present draws on the historical experience of colonial French West Africa, Ghana, Sudan, Mauritania and Tanzania and the more contemporary experiences of Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The authors each reflect on the changing ways statistics represent African economies and how they are used to govern them. This bookw as published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
Download or read book The Economy of Ghana written by Comfort Henrietta Manu and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Economic History of West Africa written by A. G. Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the standard account of the economic history of the vast area conventionally known as West Africa. Ranging from prehistoric time to independence it covers the former French as well as British colonies.
Download or read book Land and the Politics of Belonging in West Africa written by Richard Kuba and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa. They point to the colonial origins of what came to be viewed as ‘customary’ tenure and to the legal pluralism characterizing pre-colonial tenure arrangements. Furthermore, they show the spiritual and ritual importance of land that can be converted into political power and economic prerogatives, a dimension neglected by much of the recent literature. Analyses cover forest and savannah, state and segmentary societies, facilitating comparison and insights across the Anglo-Francophone divide.
Download or read book Economics of Cocoa Production and Marketing with Special Reference to Ghana written by C. Okali and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-4 include material to June 1, 1929.
Download or read book Annual Report of the West African Cocoa Research Institute written by West African Cocoa Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Migrant Cocoa farmers of Southern Ghana written by Polly Hill and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic and social organisation of Ghanaian cocoa-farming is very complex, reflecting differences in population density, land tenure, accessibility, soil fertility and other factors. The 'small peasant', with his two or three acre farms, is one type of farmer, and it has always been supposed that it was he who created the world's largest cocoa-growing industry. The migration of southern Ghanaian cocoa-farmers, which has been proceeding since the 1890s, was not known to have occurred; and this study shows that it was the migrant, not the 'peasant', who was the real innovator. This migrant has scarcely been mentioned in the literature. Author Polly Hill now gives a full account of his migration, 'one of the great events in the recent economic history of Africa south of the Sahara'. The migrant farmer, who rather resembles a 'capitalist' than a 'peasant', buys land (or inherits it from those who bought before him) and conventionally uses the proceeds from one cocoa land to purchase others. It is now possible with the aid of farm-maps to study the whole migratory process, with its changing pattern of land ownership, over more than half a century. The results are revealing. The conventional notion that it was only recently that West Africans began to engage in large-scale economic enterprises is shown to be false. One of the main contentions of this book is that the migrant farmer has been remarkably responsive to economic ends. It is further shown that there is no incompatibility between this kind of enterprise and the continuance of traditional forms of social organisation: nor is there evidence that the enterprising individual found himself hampered by the demands made on him by members of his lineage. In analysing and recording the details of the migratory process, Dr. Hill has made an important contribution to the economic history of West Africa. Besides the economists and economic historians for whom the book is primarily intended, it should be studied by lawyers, geographers, social anthropologists, and all concerned with problems of underdevelopment.
Download or read book Economic Survey written by Ghana. Central Bureau of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Land Labour and the Family in Southern Ghana written by Kojo Amanor and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is based on field work carried out in the Akyem Abuakwa area of the forest region of Ghana, a section of the country rich in agricultural land, gold, and diamonds. Through the field work which was undertaken and the empirical material generated, the author attempts to chart the processes and patterns of differentiation connected to land and land use in contemporary Ghana.
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Download or read book African Capitalism written by Paul T. Kennedy and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-09-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 book provides an analysis of African capitalism which offers a positive view of its role.
Download or read book Report written by Ghana. Ministry of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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