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Author Chamlee-Wright, Emily, 1966-

Title The cultural foundations of economic development : urban female entrepreneurship in Ghana / Emily Chamlee-Wright
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 204 pages)
Series Foundations of the market economy series
Foundations of the market economy series.
Contents Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 MARKETS AS AN EXTENSION OF CULTURE -- chapter 2 ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE -- Ghanaian economic performance through an Austrian lens -- chapter 3 THE CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- chapter 4 INDIGENOUS CREDIT, MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETIES, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- Prospects and impediments -- chapter 5 TOWARDS AN INTERPRETIVE ECONOMICS: THREE PROFILES OF URBAN MARKET WOMEN 160 167 172 -- Three profiles of urban market women / Abiba Anna Mary -- chapter 6 CONCLUSION -- Culture and economic development within the subjectivist framework
Summary This book argues that international aid programmes are unsuccessful for indigenous African institutions because it is based on mainstream economic theory which is fundamentally acultural which does not understand their cultural context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index
Notes English
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Subject Economic development -- Social aspects.
Businesswomen -- Ghana -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
Businesswomen
Economic development -- Social aspects
Economic history
SUBJECT Ghana -- Economic conditions -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054759
Subject Ghana
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97003704
ISBN 9780203448335
0203448332
9780415169943
0415169941
0203269454
9780203269459
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9781134700110
1280218207
9781280218200
9786610218202
661021820X