TY - BOOK AU - Killick,Tony TI - Development economics in action: a study of economic policies in Ghana SN - 9780415473835 (hc : alk. paper) AV - HC1060 .K54 PY - 2010/// CY - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Economic development N1 - Includes index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Development, disequilibrium and state interventionism -- 3. The economic strategies of Nkrumah and his successors -- 4. Domestic economic performance in the 1960s -- 5. External performance : the foreign exchange constraint and its causes -- 6. Planning, saving and economic management -- 7. Modernization without growth -- 8. The unbalanced growth of agriculture and industry -- 9. The state as entrepreneur -- 10. The state as controller -- 11. After Nkrumah : interpretations of policies, 1966-72 -- 12. Lessons from 1960-72 -- 13. From implosion to boom : 1972-2008 -- 14. Structural change : 1970-2008 -- 15. Forces for change : 1983-2008 ER -