ABSTRACT
Attempts during the 1960s to accelerate the development of Ghana’s economy did not take place within an intellectual vacuum. Policies there were informed by a set of ideas similar to, and affected by, the leading ideas on development which came to the fore after the Second World War. Until the fall of President Nkrumah early in 1966, a strategy was employed which had many affinities with recommendations then being made by professional economists. Their views thus illuminate much of what happened in Ghana during the sixties, and the core of this book is concerned with a rather close examination of how some of these ideas worked out in practice.
