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Regionalism and Public Policy in Northern Ghana

By Yakubu Saaka

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang Inc.
Year
2001
ISBN
0820451452, 9780820451459
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1061089 bytes)
Series
Society and Politics in Africa
Pages
242\247
Time added
2016-11-10 08:41:22
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Description

Arguably the most marginalized of all the regions of Ghana, Northern Ghana, while accounting for only 20% of the national population, is home to over 80% of the poorest tenth of that population. Its main contribution to the national economy is unskilled labor. The critical essays assembled in this collection explain how the region acquired this status and why its underdevelopment persists. The contributors trace the genesis of this unfortunate situation in the North to the pattern of neglect set by policymakers in the early colonial period.

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