The cultural foundations of economic development : urban female entrepreneurship in Ghana / / Emily Chamlee-Wright

• Autore: Chamlee-Wright Emily <1966-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9667
• Soggetto topico: Economic development - Social aspects; Businesswomen - Ghana
• Soggetto geografico: Ghana Economic conditions 1979-
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; MARKETS AS AN EXTENSION OF CULTURE; ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE: GHANAIAN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE THROUGH AN AUSTRIAN LENS; THE CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP; INDIGENOUS CREDIT, MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETIES, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: PROSPECTS AND IMPEDIMENTS; TOWARDS AN INTERPRETIVE ECONOMICS: THREE PROFILES OF URBAN MARKET WOMEN; CONCLUSION: CULTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE SUBJECTIVIST FRAMEWORK; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The cultural foundations of economic development
• ISBN: 1-134-70011-3; 1-280-21820-7; 9786610218202; 0-203-44833-2; 0-203-26945-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779943003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Foundations of the market economy series.