ABSTRACT
Of those questions raised in the last part of this book, the issue of jobs is primary, since it relates to the economic base of the cities on which the generation and distribution of wealth depends. Employment is important to all three aspects (‘DED’) of urban governance: to decentralisation because how the polity is organised and whether decentralised units survive depend on whether citizens can pay taxes for local services which, in turn, depends on questions of employment and income, to entrepreneurialism because employment issues are at the core of production, and to democracy because of the material basis of campaign strategy and voters’ decisions. Thus, examining the economic base of Ghanaian cities at this stage in the book is appropriate.
