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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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"The Politics of Government-Business Relations in Ghana, 1982-2008 is a fascinating review of the response by the Ghanaian private business sector to neo-liberal economic reforms. Opoku draws on both liberal and 'governed market' approaches to account for the failure of neo-liberal reforms to galvanize the Ghanaian private sector industrial and manufacturing activity. The author is an astute, measured observer of Ghanaian political economy and his account is grounded in an impressive number of interviews with Ghanaian businesspeople. The result is an empirically rich and convincing narrative. While Opoku obviously knows Ghana very well, he is also able to stand back sufficiently from the minutiae, the often fierce partisanship and the many contradictory versions of events to provide a coherent account. In a field where good fieldwork and carefully observed empirics are far rarer than they ought to be, this is to be commended. This book contains much valuable material that will augment a substantial literature, of interest to a large number of scholars, on the Ghanaian political economy." - Antoinette Handley, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
"This book is a welcome contribution to the emerging scholarship on business-state relations in Africa. It should be high on the reading list of anyone with an interest in business and politics in Ghana and the region." - Scott D. Taylor, Associate Professor and Director, African Studies Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
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Book Title: The Politics of Government-Business Relations in Ghana, 1982-2008
Authors: Darko Kwabena Opoku
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113107
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10556-0Published: 18 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29000-0Published: 18 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11310-7Published: 14 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 264
Topics: African Culture, Business and Management, general, Development Policy, African Politics, Political Science, International Relations