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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Many African countries have experienced unprecedented rates of economic growth in recent years, yet their economic transformations display features that could constrain their future growth prospects. Patterns of urbanization without industrialization, rapid growth of low productivity jobs in the informal economy, and a neglected agricultural sector with increased need for important foods are all areas for concern as Africa continues to develop.
Using Ghana as a case study, Ghana's Economic and Agricultural Transformation: Past Performance and Future Prospects integrates economic and political analysis to explore the challenges and opportunities of Africa's transformation. It examines Ghana's overall economic performance since it went through a major Structural Adjustment Program in the early 1980s, and provides an in-depth empirical analysis of the broader economy and the agricultural sector over the last four decades. It explains why Ghana has not transformed its economy more substantially, why its agriculture sector has not played a greater role beyond cocoa production, and what must be done in the future to achieve a successful transformation. In addressing these puzzles Ghana's Economic and Agricultural Transformation considers what the rest of the world can learn from Ghana's experience.
Contents
1: Xinshen Diao, Peter Hazell, Shashidhara Kolavalli, and Danielle Resnick: Introduction
2: Xinshen Diao and Peter Hazell: Ghana's Economy-wide Transformation: Past Patterns and Future Prospects
3: Danielle Resnick: Strong Democracy, Weak State: The Political Economy of Ghana's Stalled Structural Transformation
4: Peter Hazell, Xinshen Diao and Eduardo Magalhaes: Ghana's Agricultural Transformation: Past Patterns and Sources of Change
5: Xinshen Diao, Eduardo Magalhaes, and Jed Silver: Urbanization and Its Impact on Ghana's Rural Transformation
6: Michael Johnson, Nazaire Houssou, Shashidhara Kolavalli, and Peter Hazell: Agricultural Transformation in the Savannah: Perspectives from the Village
7: Samuel Benin: Public Expenditure on Agriculture and Its Impact
8: Shashidhara Kolavalli: Developing Agricultural Value Chains
9: Xinshen Diao, Frances Cossar, Nazaire Houssou, and Shashidhara Kolavalli: Unleashing the Power of Mechanization
10: Xinshen Diao, Peter Hazell, Shashidhara Kolavalli, and Danielle Resnick: Future Prospects
