Ghana was one of the first African countries to adopt a comprehensive IMF reform program and the one that has sustained adjustment longest. Yet, questions of Ghana's compliance (to what extent did it comply, how did it manage compliance, what patterns of non-compliance existed, and why?) have not been systematically investigated and remain poorly understood. This book argues that understanding the domestic political environment is crucial in explaining why compliance, or the lack thereof, occurs. Akonor maintains that compliance with IMF conditionality in Ghana has had high political costs and thus, non-compliance occurred once the political survival of a regime was at stake. 144pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

An estimated 15% of Ghana's population live outside the country, and remittances from Ghanaians living overseas contribute at least a quarter of the country's income: the single most important source. But while organisations such as the World Bank and United Nations believe that effectively managed international migration can contribute to growth and prosperity, Ghana has virtually no coordinated migration/development policies. Emanating from an international conference on migration and development convened by the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, the UNDP and the Royal Netherlands Embassy, this collection of papers considers topics such as: patterns of migration in West Africa; the Dutch perspective on contemporary migration; the macroeconomic impact of remittances; the impact of the brain drain on the health and higher education sectors in Ghana; the religious dimension of migration; and the role of diaspora-based organisations in socio-economic development. 354pp, GHANA. SUB-SAHARAN PUBLISHERS.

Traces the development of banking in Ghana from the colonial era to modern times. Includes a detailed analysis of the legislation governing activities of the banks and other financial institutions. Tables, boxes, app, notes, index, 270pp, GHANA. WOELI PUBLISHING SERVICES, 9965978677

2000 Paperback

Colonial and national interventions have considerably changed the natural resource regimes regarding water and land in Northern Ghana. However, this change has not led to the establishment of new institutions, but different actors - farmers, bureaucrats, earthpriests, chiefs, and politicians - are continuously engaged in negotiation process over (natural) resources. While the institutional and distributional outcomes of these negotiation processes remain inconclusive they have led to a precarious local power balance, in which different actors rely on different institutions and changing political alliances to pursue their interests. 392pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

From HIPC dustbins to HIPC toilets, debt relief is not just peanuts but ties Ghana to a Western inspired agenda and parenting classes. Damned by donor diktat, for Ghanaians it’s a raw deal. After the Live8-G8 bonanza many assumed debt cancellation for indebted poor countries was great news. Was it? This short documentary argues that debt relief was never a new deal, there was no new money involved and worse than colonial conditions applied to so called debt forgiveness. DVD (PAL), 28 mins, UK. WORLDwrite.

Is 'development' a solution for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for maintaining inequality? Do African NGOs represent a flourishing civil society or the strategic allocation of external resources by local elites? Moving beyond an increasingly polarized debate about the role of NGOs, this book reveals the practices and social relations through which ideas of development are concretely established. Rather than reducing these to a single, encompassing development 'logic', Yarrow argues for the need to understand the multiple and conflicting epistemologies through which development interventions practically proceed. Through ethnographic description, he brings to life the everyday realities of development professionals in Ghana. The result is a profound challenge to theories of development and public culture in Africa and beyond. 216pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

First published in 1978, Development Economics in Action is a renowned study of policies in Ghana, one of Africa’s most closely watched economies. In this new edition three additional chapters provide a detailed account of 1978-2008. 544pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Food, clothing and shelter form the basic needs of a population. The author discusses how past Ghanaian governments have measured up to providing these basic needs and compares its experiences with that of Malaysia. Index, app, 159pp, GHANA. WOELI PUBLISHING SERVICES.

Reflecting on Ghana's fifty years of often tumultuous transformation, Ivor Agyeman-Duah has gathered together a group of scholars, educators and government, business and civil society leaders to debate the trajectory of Ghana's economic history. Their views centre on three fundamental themes: structures and institutions in a post-colonial economy, the role of public policy and innovation. Foreword by Wole Soyinka. Index, 290pp, UK. AYEBIA.

As Ghana enters its second half-century there is a widespread perception of failure of the economic and political system in delivering improved living standards to the population. This failure comes despite a solid transition to democracy, despite a recorded recovery from the economic malaise of previous decades and despite a reduction on measured levels of poverty. The contributors in this book analyse the reasons for this failure and sets out an analytical agenda as the basis of the course that the nations' policy makers will have to steer if Ghana is to fulfil the promise of its independence in 1957. Index, bib, tables, 432pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Essays on Ghana's economy, and its experiences. The final chapter looks at the future and contains recommendations for the 90's, with policy suggestions for sectors of the economy, commodities, banking etc.

300pp, UK/GHANA. SELWYN PUBLISHERS.

1991 0951724215 Paperback

A study looking at why Ghana has not achieved sustained and rapid long term growth since independence. App, tables, 110pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE.

A study of the Ghanaian economic adjustment experience. Using interviews with Ghanaians, IMF and World Bank officials, the author provides a comprehensive analysis of the nature of economic policy actors and processes, looking in particular at how political entrepreneurs use macro economic reform and market opening to promote state reconstruction and power composition. Index, refs, notes, tables, xv, 268pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Describes the history of commodification of land and labour in Ghana linked initially to speculative activities and, more recently, to the activities of international capital, agribusiness, international agricultural centres, and agencies of the state. Research Report No. 108. 185pp, refs, map, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE. 9171064370

Fourth edition. A survey of the history and development of gold production in Ghana since 1460. Also discusses modern economic considerations of gold production and includes information about geological surveys, legislation, regulations, leases and licences. 287pp, GHANA. SELWYN PUBLISHERS,

1994 1987 0951724207 Paperback

Mineral-rich-post-independent African countries rely on their extractive industries for economic growth and development. The extraction of these resources generates more curses than blessings raising questions whether the sector provides an appropriate vehicle for economic growth. To balance the growing gap between the curses and blessings, regional policy makers and international counterparts have engaged in large-scale reforms of the mining sector. This has led to establishment of spaces of exclusion and further marginalization as new actors introduced into the sector interact one with the other to pursue and protect their interests. The gap between the curses and blessings of mining continues to widen, largely as an outcome of institutional and actor interaction within a politicized environment. 256pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

Presents evidence that the policies of the IMF and World Bank have failed, and calls for new and viable policies to enhance Ghana's global competitiveness and meet genuine development needs. BNS, 200pp, USA. PRAEGER, 0275961869

Questioning the benefits of Structural Adjustment Programmes, this volume critically assesses their impact from a wider perspective than a purely economic one. BNS, 464pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS, 0754613968

During the past two decades successive Ghanaian governments have implemented private sector development policies aimed at stimulating growth through internationalisation of local enterprises and attracting foreign investors. Contributors to the volume provide an overview of the impact of these policies on the Ghanaian business environment and the strategic orientations of managers. They also offer an insight into the productivity and performance of exporting firms, the financial and knowledge acquisition strategies they adopt, their degree of market orientation and corporate social responsibility and the challenges faced by African policy makers and managers learning to operate within an increasingly turbulent global economy. Index, bib, 248pp, UK. ADONIS & ABBEY.

Charts the processes and patterns of differentiation connected to land and land use and identifies intra household, generational and gender differences as well as their implications for the mobilisation of family labour and the emergence of new land and labour markets. The conclusions challenge some of the dominant theoretical approaches to the land question in contemporary Africa, particularly the evolutionary property rights and communitarian approaches. Tables, refs, 127pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE.

2001 9171064680 Paperback

New in paperback. Access to land and property is vital to people's livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in Africa. People exert tremendous energy to have land claims recognized as rights with a variety of political, administrative, and legal institutions. This book provides a detailed analysis of how public authority and the state are formed through debates and struggles over property in the Upper East Region of Ghana. While scarcity may indeed promote exclusivity, the evidence from this book shows that when there are many institutions competing for the right to authorize claims to land, the result of an effort to unify and clarify the law is to intensify competition among them and weaken their legitimacy. The book explores how state divestiture of land in 1979 encouraged competition between customary authorities and how the institution of the earthpriest was revived. Index, bib, 224pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Explores the appropriateness of Western models of environmental impact assessment for Third World application. The book also examines Ghana’s environmental impact assessment procedure and the potential role of indigenous knowledge and institutions in the assessment process, based on the results of a field research in Ghana. Finally, the book offers suggestions that could improve Ghana’s environmental impact assessment procedure and facilitate its adoption in other developing countries. 212pp, USA. EDWIN MELLEN PRESS.

At the height of the NGO Decade in African Development, assertions were made that NGOs were spearheading a fundamental realignment of power relations in Africa. Yet two decades after these assertions, very little empirical analyses exist on how NGOs have restructured African development politics. This is due to an NGO research tradition that has neglected relational and power issues. This book fills this gap by an analysis of NGO-Government relations in Ghana. 320pp, GERMANY. VDM VERLAG.

The Millennium Development Goals have set targets to address poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women, by the year 2015. In this volume 8 papers reflect on the attainments of some of these goals in the Ghanaian context. 190pp, GHANA. SUB-SAHARAN PUBLISHERS.

Considers the impact of planning on living standards for particular communities in Ghana. BNS, 260pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS.

Argues that if governments, NGOs, development donor agencies and researchers are serious about development in Africa, they need to get down to ground level, both metaphorically and literally. They must search deep into Africa’s own rich oral traditions by creating space and opportunity for ordinary Africans, whose voices have so far been conspicuously absent in the development discourse, to tell and share their own stories of development. Story-sharing as research methodology acts as a mirror, reflecting the participants self-evaluation of where they have come from, where they are now, and how to proceed into the future. 178pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Textbook style volume which introduces the securities market and investments in the Ghanaian context. Index, tables, figs, 240pp, GHANA, SEM FINANCIAL TRAINING.

An ethnographic study tracing the history of shea from a pre to post industrial commodity with the aim of providing a deeper understanding of emerging trends in tropical commodification, cosmopolitan consumption, global economic restructuring and rural livelihoods. The author challenges the assumption that globalisation makes state institutions and authority unnecessary and undercuts the neo liberal argument that streamlining state operations yields greater efficiency and accountability. She also explores how state authority, during both the colonial and post colonial periods, is sustained through various projects of market building. Index, bib, notes, maps, b/w illus, graphs, xviii, 295pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE, 0415944619

Three lectures on the role of development in Ghana elaborating on the processes, institutional structures and management mechanisms for the generation of indigenous technology of foreign origin. 73pp, GHANA. SELF PUBLISHED TITLES/NO IMPRINT.