W. Arthur Lewis and the Roots of Ghanaian Economic Policy

Kanbur, Ravi

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“…Nkrumah's injunction has been a subject of lampooning -something that dates to Ali Mazrui's (1966; gross misreading. Mazrui's misrepresentation is replicated in sources as diverse as Kanbur (2016), Oloruntoba and Falola (2018), and among 'decolonial scholars'. For the latter, it is to cast the injunction as evidence of the over-inflation of the political over the epistemic.…”

Section: Variations In Modalities Of Economic Developmentmentioning

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2 - Variations in Postcolonial Imagination: Reflection on Senghor, Nyerere and Nkrumah

Adésínà¹

2022

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This article aims to strengthen contemporary efforts to construct and pursue a pan-African agenda by interrogating the postcolonial imaginings of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah. To counter the present-day tendency to erase and flatten the diversity of this period, the article explores the variations and similarities of the three leaders’ approaches to socialism, pan-African unity, nationhood, economic development, epistemology and democracy. Through this contrast, the article derives some broad lessons for the contemporary period, including the importance of cultivating domestic resources (human, material and financial) rather than being dependent on external forces; the need for countries to construct a macro-vision that coordinates their economic, social and political projects; and the importance of maintaining sovereignty of thought in policy thinking on the continent to effectively break free from the universal, market-based prescriptions that now dominate under neoliberalism. Jimi O. Adesina, Professor and the DSI/NRF Chair of Social Policy, University of South Africa / Post-Colonialisms Today researcher. Email: jotadesina@gmail.com

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Section: Variations In Modalities Of Economic Developmentmentioning

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2 - Variations in Postcolonial Imagination: Reflection on Senghor, Nyerere and Nkrumah

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2022

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“…It is not easy to make a good development plan for £100 million if the Prime Minister insists on inserting £18 million of his own pet schemes of a sort which neither develop the country nor increase the comfort of the people. (Tignor 2006: 167) As argued by Kanbur (2017), the Ghana period in Lewis's life merely revealed his struggles in balancing state and market, cognizant on the one hand of market failures, and on the other of state failures (Lewis 1965). This struggle is also seen in Underdeveloped Regions and in Asian Drama.…”

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PHẬT VIỆN ĐỒNG DƯƠNG: MỘT PHONG CÁCH CỦA NGHỆ THUẬT CHAMPA [THE ĐỒNG DƯƠNG MONASTERY: THE UNIQUE STYLE OF CHAMPA ART]. By Ngô V.Doanh. Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh: NXB Văn Hóa‐Văn Nghệ, 2015. Pp. 159. Paperback, VND 150,000.

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Religious Studies Review

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“…Lewis, who visited and wrote a report for the future economic development of Ghana (Gold Coast) in the early 1950s, argued that unlike India, Ghana did not exhibit surplus labour. 15 Hence he recommended measures to encourage more labour to move into agriculture and raise agricultural productivity (Kanbur 2017).…”

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My journey through the history of development economics

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2018

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provides economic analysis and policy advice with the aim of promoting sustainable and equitable development. The Institute began operations in 1985 in Helsinki, Finland, as the first research and training centre of the United Nations University. Today it is a unique blend of think tank, research institute, and UN agency-providing a range of services from policy advice to governments as well as freely available original research. The Institute is funded through income from an endowment fund with additional contributions to its work programme from Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom as well as earmarked contributions for specific projects from a variety of donors.

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W. Arthur Lewis and the Roots of Ghanaian Economic Policy

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

2 - Variations in Postcolonial Imagination: Reflection on Senghor, Nyerere and Nkrumah

2 - Variations in Postcolonial Imagination: Reflection on Senghor, Nyerere and Nkrumah

PHẬT VIỆN ĐỒNG DƯƠNG: MỘT PHONG CÁCH CỦA NGHỆ THUẬT CHAMPA [THE ĐỒNG DƯƠNG MONASTERY: THE UNIQUE STYLE OF CHAMPA ART]. By Ngô V.Doanh. Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh: NXB Văn Hóa‐Văn Nghệ, 2015. Pp. 159. Paperback, VND 150,000.

My journey through the history of development economics

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