W. Arthur Lewis in Retrospect

Becker, Charles; Craigie, Terry‐Ann

doi:10.1007/s12114-008-9010-6

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“…To appreciate the task that confronted the Ghanaian and Tanzanian governments at independence, it is important to consider the state of economies passed on from colonial rule. The inherited colonial economies in both instances were entirely dominated by British private capital (Ngowi 2009;Ninsin 1989a;Becker and Craigie 2008). They were primary producers of raw materials (agricultural and mineral) for colonial metropolitan industries and purchasers of manufactured products from the metropolis.…”

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“…Others, such as the economist Arthur Lewis, demanded industrialisation to link modernised agriculture to improve rural productivity, produce food for the domestic market, and release labour tied to the land for urban industry (ibid. ; Becker and Craigie 2008). According to Frimpong-Ansah (1992), the scale of Lewisian agricultural and industrial transformation was predicated on central planning and the infusion of private capital, an obligation the colonial overlords did not want to assume.…”

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4 - Post-Independence Development Planning in Ghana and Tanzania: Agriculture, Women and Nation-building

Britwum¹

2022

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This article analyses development planning in post-independence Ghana and Tanzania, particularly related to agriculture, in contrast with the contemporary neoliberal subsumption of African economies to market forces. The article derives lessons from both their successes and shortcomings. Ghana and Tanzania’s experiences suggest the importance of agricultural transformation for national self-sufficiency; development planning as a mechanism to link all sectors of the economy; and the key strategic potential of the state in production, distribution and employment creation. Key shortcomings included the inability to fully de-link national economies from the global capitalist political economy, break dependence on earnings from cash crop exports, and the political and economic marginalisation of women in post-independence development planning. The article suggests that progressive development planning that centres the pursuit of gender justice is a critical starting point for imagining and pursuing alternatives to neoliberalism. Akua O. Britwum, Associate Professor, Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana / Post-Colonialisms Today researcher. Email: aobritwum@ucc.edu.gh

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4 - Post-Independence Development Planning in Ghana and Tanzania: Agriculture, Women and Nation-building

Britwum¹

2022

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“…These conclusions of Lewis the economist came as a surprise to the Colonial Office, who had expected a more radical support of industrialization. They may also have come as a surprise † † The influence of the "Lewis model" on development thinking continues to this day-see Becker and Craigie (2007) and Gollin (2014). to the stalwarts of CPP, who had imbibed a more directly state socialism in their anti-colonial struggles. But the CPP leadership did not disavow the report and the government accepted it in the legislative assembly in 1954, as did the opposition.…”

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W. Arthur Lewis and the Roots of Ghanaian Economic Policy

Kanbur¹

2017

The Economy of Ghana Sixty Years After Independence

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“…Tignor correctly concludes that Lewis's two‐sector model has lost influence among modern development economists. Nevertheless, as Becker and Craigie (2007) note, some of his predictions about the path of economic development have been borne out by the data. In addition, the concept of surplus labor reemerged in analyses of the macroeconomic consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa (Cuddington 1993).…”

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