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Title: | Small enterprises for the needs of the people? Ghana's 'small-scale industrial take-off' |
Author: | Fischer-Quincke, G. |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | African Development Perspectives Yearbook |
Pages: | 233-247 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | small-scale industry economic policy |
Abstract: | The promotion of small-scale industries and small private entrepreneurship can lay a proper base for a 'self-reliant, more integrated economy, which answers comprehensively to the needs of the people', as proclaimed by Ghana's Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). But there are adverse conditions which, in the case of Ghana, come from the deficiencies of the economic structure, the recent development of commodity prices on the world market, the selfish management of the debt crisis, the protectionist economic and technology policies pursued by the industrialized countries, and the one-sided concentration on the export sector in the present programmes for structural adjustment. The prevailing tendency under the Economic Recovery Programme (ERP), launched in 1983, is the reestablishment of the neocolonial economic structure. As yet, there is no revolutionary small-scale industrial 'take-off'. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |