1st Edition
Development and the Debt Trap Economic Planning and External Borrowing in Ghana
By Andrzej Krassowski
Copyright 1974
184 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ghana is one of the earliest and most serious examples of the build up of foreign debt by a developing country to support its policies for economic growth. This study, first published in 1974 in conjunction with the Overseas Development Institute, analyses Ghana’s economy over twenty years and highlights the problems of the debtor/creditor relationship between developed and developing countries.... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Root of the Problem: Economic and Political Conditions and Objectives in the Decade Before Independence 3. The Transition from Financial Self-Reliance to External Dependence, 1957-1961 4. The Plunge into Insolvency (1962-65) 5. The Nkrumah Legacy 6. Post-Nkrumah Efforts at Rehabilitation and Debt Settlement 7. Summary and Lessons
Biography
Andrzej Krassowski
