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Title: | Neoliberal globalisation and evolving local traditional institutions: implications for access to resources in rural northern Ghana |
Author: | Yaro, Joseph A. |
Year: | 2013 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244) |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 137 |
Pages: | 410-427 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | globalization liberalism rural economy traditional society |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2013.816945 |
Abstract: | The world has become interconnected and interdependent well beyond the economic domains of life and this has consequences for the role of major institutions governing access to resources in rural Africa. Neoliberal globalization is eroding the moral foundation of rural societies in ways that create unequal access to the resources needed for involvement and inclusion in the market relations of production and social reproduction. Using the case of rural northern Ghana, this article shows how the transformation of local traditional governance and institutions led to processes of accumulation for a few privileged ones while the majority are excluded through dispossession. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |