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Looks at Ghana as a would-be African economic lion and shows how tradition, culture, and lifestyle impact development.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Ghanaians Here Today Ghana Tomorrow When the Spirits Move Family Affairs Money is Blood From Uncertainty to Cleverness Ghanaians in Business Fishing for Clues to a Management Culture Traders Turned Hoteliers and Exporters Returnees Turned Industrialists and Business Service Executives Obronis Turned African Functionaries Ghanaians in Business Going Global: What is Your Mission? Economic Management Clues for a New Millennium Clue File #1: The White Man Did It Clue File #2: The Ghanaian Persona Clue File #3: The Way I See It From Asian Tigers to African Lions Glossary Bibliography

About the Author

NATHANIEL H. BOWDITCH is a Senior Fellow at the New England Board of Higher Education in Boston, where he directs the New England Public Policy Collaborative program./e Mr. Bowditch has directed municipal and state government agencies, headed five non-governmental organizations and conducted consultancies throughout Asia, West Africa, Eastern Europe, Russia, Brazil, and the Northeastern United States. In the early 1990s, he worked for the United Nations Development Program and a consortium of U.S. non-governmental organizations coordinating an ecotourism project focused on the rehabilitation of slave castles and the creation of Ghana's newest national park and development of a tourism business sector.

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.,."this is a very useful - and unique - study on prospects for development in Ghana."-CHOICE

?...this is a very useful - and unique - study on prospects for development in Ghana.?-CHOICE

?This volume by Nathaniel Bowditch is a valuable and timely exposition of the business environment of an African country-Ghana. While students of African development will welcome the book, it will be even more treasured by students of African business, largely because it plugs a noticeable lacuna in the vast and rapidly growing scholarship on business environments around the world, particularly in this era of globalization...All told, the book is a well-researched, thorough, and lucid analysis of the evolving Ghanaian (African) business environment in the 21st century...Bowditch ought to be lauded for taking the initiative to contribute to the discussion and analysis of the new and evolving African business environment...will make a useful text for any course on African business.?-Journal of African Business

..."this is a very useful - and unique - study on prospects for development in Ghana."-CHOICE

"This volume by Nathaniel Bowditch is a valuable and timely exposition of the business environment of an African country-Ghana. While students of African development will welcome the book, it will be even more treasured by students of African business, largely because it plugs a noticeable lacuna in the vast and rapidly growing scholarship on business environments around the world, particularly in this era of globalization...All told, the book is a well-researched, thorough, and lucid analysis of the evolving Ghanaian (African) business environment in the 21st century...Bowditch ought to be lauded for taking the initiative to contribute to the discussion and analysis of the new and evolving African business environment...will make a useful text for any course on African business."-Journal of African Business