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Africa, tropical timber, turfs and trade [[electronic resource] ] : geographic perspectives on Ghana's timber industry and development / / J. Henry Owusu
| Africa, tropical timber, turfs and trade [[electronic resource] ] : geographic perspectives on Ghana's timber industry and development / / J. Henry Owusu |
| Autore | Owusu J. Henry (John Henry), <1953-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.1749809667 |
| Soggetto topico |
Timber - Economic aspects - Ghana
Lumber trade - Ghana Neoliberalism - Ghana Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Ghana |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-58401-8
9786613896469 0-7391-7402-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One. Africa, Turfs, and Trade: Theoretical and Historical Framework; Chapter Two. Turf Establishment and the Development Process: Structural Foundations of Ghana's Timber Industry; Chapter Three. Independence, Instability, and Contested Turfs: Structural Changes in the Timber Industry; Chapter Four. Turf Reclamation Strategies: Neo-Liberalism and the Timber Industry; Chapter Five. Turf Recapture and Consolidation for the Timber Trade: Ghana's Economic Recovery Program
Chapter Six. Structural Adjustment, the Timber Trade, and Turf Degradation: Political Convenience and Desperate DeforestationChapter Seven. Turf Dynamics and Conflicts, the Timber Trade, and Spatial Integration; Chapter Eight. Debt, Dependence, Turf Control, and Ghana's Economy; Chapter Nine. Conclusions and Lessons for Twenty-First Century Africa; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462152403321 |
Owusu J. Henry (John Henry), <1953->
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| Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa, tropical timber, turfs and trade [[electronic resource] ] : geographic perspectives on Ghana's timber industry and development / / J. Henry Owusu
| Africa, tropical timber, turfs and trade [[electronic resource] ] : geographic perspectives on Ghana's timber industry and development / / J. Henry Owusu |
| Autore | Owusu J. Henry (John Henry), <1953-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.1749809667 |
| Soggetto topico |
Timber - Economic aspects - Ghana
Lumber trade - Ghana Neoliberalism - Ghana Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Ghana |
| ISBN |
1-283-58401-8
9786613896469 0-7391-7402-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One. Africa, Turfs, and Trade: Theoretical and Historical Framework; Chapter Two. Turf Establishment and the Development Process: Structural Foundations of Ghana's Timber Industry; Chapter Three. Independence, Instability, and Contested Turfs: Structural Changes in the Timber Industry; Chapter Four. Turf Reclamation Strategies: Neo-Liberalism and the Timber Industry; Chapter Five. Turf Recapture and Consolidation for the Timber Trade: Ghana's Economic Recovery Program
Chapter Six. Structural Adjustment, the Timber Trade, and Turf Degradation: Political Convenience and Desperate DeforestationChapter Seven. Turf Dynamics and Conflicts, the Timber Trade, and Spatial Integration; Chapter Eight. Debt, Dependence, Turf Control, and Ghana's Economy; Chapter Nine. Conclusions and Lessons for Twenty-First Century Africa; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785510503321 |
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Owusu J. Henry (John Henry), <1953->
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| Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa, tropical timber, turfs and trade : geographic perspectives on Ghana's timber industry and development / / J. Henry Owusu
| Africa, tropical timber, turfs and trade : geographic perspectives on Ghana's timber industry and development / / J. Henry Owusu |
| Autore | Owusu J. Henry (John Henry), <1953-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.1749809667 |
| Soggetto topico |
Timber - Economic aspects - Ghana
Lumber trade - Ghana Neoliberalism - Ghana Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Ghana |
| ISBN |
1-283-58401-8
9786613896469 0-7391-7402-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One. Africa, Turfs, and Trade: Theoretical and Historical Framework; Chapter Two. Turf Establishment and the Development Process: Structural Foundations of Ghana's Timber Industry; Chapter Three. Independence, Instability, and Contested Turfs: Structural Changes in the Timber Industry; Chapter Four. Turf Reclamation Strategies: Neo-Liberalism and the Timber Industry; Chapter Five. Turf Recapture and Consolidation for the Timber Trade: Ghana's Economic Recovery Program
Chapter Six. Structural Adjustment, the Timber Trade, and Turf Degradation: Political Convenience and Desperate DeforestationChapter Seven. Turf Dynamics and Conflicts, the Timber Trade, and Spatial Integration; Chapter Eight. Debt, Dependence, Turf Control, and Ghana's Economy; Chapter Nine. Conclusions and Lessons for Twenty-First Century Africa; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817427003321 |
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Owusu J. Henry (John Henry), <1953->
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| Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Assembling export markets : the making and unmaking of global food connections in West Africa / / Stefan Ouma
| Assembling export markets : the making and unmaking of global food connections in West Africa / / Stefan Ouma |
| Autore | Ouma Stefan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina | 382/.4109667 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG Book Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Produce trade - Social aspects - Ghana
Farm produce - Ghana - Marketing Agriculture - Economic aspects - Ghana |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-118-63260-5
1-118-63261-3 1-118-63259-1 |
| Classificazione | SOC015000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Technical Remarks; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction: Struggling with "World Market Integration"; Rethinking Global Connections; Grounding Commodity Chains: Geographies of Marketization; Matters of Concern; The Practical Means of Marketization; Marketization as Proliferation; Of Frontier Regions and Borderlands; How This Book Unfolds; Endnotes; Chapter 2 Querying Marketization; Studying Markets as Practical Accomplishments; Markets as Sociotechnical Agencements
"Problems" of Market-Making Exchanging Goods the "Right" Way; Qualified Objectifications; Detachment/Calculation; Singularizations; Knowing and Doing Markets; From Market Knowledge to Knowing Markets; Power in/through Markets; Formatting Market Encounters; The Order(ing) of Markets; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 3 Remaking "the Economy": Taking Ghanaian Horticulture to Global Markets; Models of Organizing "the Economy": From Macro to Micro; A Tale of Two Frontiers; Markets for Development: Organic Mangoes in Northern Ghana; Fresh from Farm: JIT Pineapple Markets; Sites of Attention; Conclusion Endnotes Chapter 4 Critical Ethnographies of Marketization; Researching Markets in the Making; Outside/Inside "the Market"; "Reconstructing" Market Practices; Technicalities?; Knowledge Production: Heuristics and Limitations; After "the Field": Veni, Vidi, Vici?; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 5 The Birth of Global Agrifood Market Connections; Nothing Was Packaged for (High-value) Export; Market Enrollment, Not Integration; The Messy Economics of Outgrowing; Market-making as Boundary Work; Outflanking Nature?; The Terms of "World Market" Enrollment; Good(s) Connect(ions) Having the "Right" Product Performing the Audit Economy; Relational Properties of Competition; Ongoing Struggles for Retail Worth; The Orderings of JIT; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 6 Enacting Global Connections: The Making of World Market Agencies; Qualculating the Mango Tree; Indeterminate Framings of Worth; Struggling for the Agricola Oeconomicus; Responsibilizing/Autonomizing Farmers; Standardizing Market STAs; Standards and the Stubborn Social; Value/Power; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 7 Markets, Materiality, and (Anti-)Political Encounters; The Hidden Conditions of Global Markets Powerful Valorimeters Pricing, Returns, and Visible hands; Power Relations as Relations of Accounting; Accounting: Frontstage; Accounting: Backstage; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 8 Market Crises: When Things Fall Apart, or Won't Come Together; A Model in Crisis; MD2 Takes Over the Market, or How Goods Become Delegitimated; Trading Down in Times of Crisis; Currency and Capital Volatilities; When the Supply Base Disenrolls ...; Reassembling the Market Social?; Recalcitrant "Nature" and the Crisis of the Developmental Market (Mis-)calculating "Nature" and other Surprises: Mango Trees as Precarious Commodities |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131299103321 |
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Ouma Stefan
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| West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Assembling export markets : the making and unmaking of global food connections in West Africa / / Stefan Ouma
| Assembling export markets : the making and unmaking of global food connections in West Africa / / Stefan Ouma |
| Autore | Ouma Stefan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina | 382/.4109667 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG Book Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Produce trade - Social aspects - Ghana
Farm produce - Ghana - Marketing Agriculture - Economic aspects - Ghana |
| ISBN |
1-118-63260-5
1-118-63261-3 1-118-63259-1 |
| Classificazione | SOC015000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Technical Remarks; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction: Struggling with "World Market Integration"; Rethinking Global Connections; Grounding Commodity Chains: Geographies of Marketization; Matters of Concern; The Practical Means of Marketization; Marketization as Proliferation; Of Frontier Regions and Borderlands; How This Book Unfolds; Endnotes; Chapter 2 Querying Marketization; Studying Markets as Practical Accomplishments; Markets as Sociotechnical Agencements
"Problems" of Market-Making Exchanging Goods the "Right" Way; Qualified Objectifications; Detachment/Calculation; Singularizations; Knowing and Doing Markets; From Market Knowledge to Knowing Markets; Power in/through Markets; Formatting Market Encounters; The Order(ing) of Markets; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 3 Remaking "the Economy": Taking Ghanaian Horticulture to Global Markets; Models of Organizing "the Economy": From Macro to Micro; A Tale of Two Frontiers; Markets for Development: Organic Mangoes in Northern Ghana; Fresh from Farm: JIT Pineapple Markets; Sites of Attention; Conclusion Endnotes Chapter 4 Critical Ethnographies of Marketization; Researching Markets in the Making; Outside/Inside "the Market"; "Reconstructing" Market Practices; Technicalities?; Knowledge Production: Heuristics and Limitations; After "the Field": Veni, Vidi, Vici?; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 5 The Birth of Global Agrifood Market Connections; Nothing Was Packaged for (High-value) Export; Market Enrollment, Not Integration; The Messy Economics of Outgrowing; Market-making as Boundary Work; Outflanking Nature?; The Terms of "World Market" Enrollment; Good(s) Connect(ions) Having the "Right" Product Performing the Audit Economy; Relational Properties of Competition; Ongoing Struggles for Retail Worth; The Orderings of JIT; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 6 Enacting Global Connections: The Making of World Market Agencies; Qualculating the Mango Tree; Indeterminate Framings of Worth; Struggling for the Agricola Oeconomicus; Responsibilizing/Autonomizing Farmers; Standardizing Market STAs; Standards and the Stubborn Social; Value/Power; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 7 Markets, Materiality, and (Anti-)Political Encounters; The Hidden Conditions of Global Markets Powerful Valorimeters Pricing, Returns, and Visible hands; Power Relations as Relations of Accounting; Accounting: Frontstage; Accounting: Backstage; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 8 Market Crises: When Things Fall Apart, or Won't Come Together; A Model in Crisis; MD2 Takes Over the Market, or How Goods Become Delegitimated; Trading Down in Times of Crisis; Currency and Capital Volatilities; When the Supply Base Disenrolls ...; Reassembling the Market Social?; Recalcitrant "Nature" and the Crisis of the Developmental Market (Mis-)calculating "Nature" and other Surprises: Mango Trees as Precarious Commodities |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827812803321 |
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Ouma Stefan
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| West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Expanding job opportunities in Ghana / / Maddalena Honorati and Sara Johansson de Silva
| Expanding job opportunities in Ghana / / Maddalena Honorati and Sara Johansson de Silva |
| Autore | Honorati Maddalena |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, District of Columbia : , : World Bank Group, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (163 pages) : color illustrations, color map |
| Collana | Directions in development. Human development |
| Soggetto topico |
Occupations - Ghana
Job hunting - Ghana |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910151565303321 |
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Honorati Maddalena
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| Washington, District of Columbia : , : World Bank Group, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Expanding Job Opportunities in Ghana / / Maddalena Honorati
| Expanding Job Opportunities in Ghana / / Maddalena Honorati |
| Autore | Honorati Maddalena |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (160 pages) |
| Disciplina | 337.6 |
| Collana | Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Human Development |
| Soggetto topico |
Occupations - Ghana
Job hunting - Ghana |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798867203321 |
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Honorati Maddalena
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| Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Expanding Job Opportunities in Ghana / / Maddalena Honorati
| Expanding Job Opportunities in Ghana / / Maddalena Honorati |
| Autore | Honorati Maddalena |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (160 pages) |
| Disciplina | 337.6 |
| Collana | Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Human Development |
| Soggetto topico |
Occupations - Ghana
Job hunting - Ghana |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819125103321 |
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Honorati Maddalena
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| Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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External Influences and the Educational Landscape : Analysis of Political, Economic, Geographic, Health and Demographic Factors in Ghana / / by Alexander Krauss
| External Influences and the Educational Landscape : Analysis of Political, Economic, Geographic, Health and Demographic Factors in Ghana / / by Alexander Krauss |
| Autore | Krauss Alexander |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (144 p.) |
| Disciplina | 370.9667 |
| Collana | SpringerBriefs in Economics |
| Soggetto topico |
Development economics
Economic policy Educational policy Education and state Development Economics Economic Policy Educational Policy and Politics |
| ISBN |
1-283-74173-3
1-4614-4936-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
External Influences and the Educational Landscape; Acknowledgment; Contents; 1 Introduction; Problem Statement, Significance and Strategic Orientation; Research Methodology and Data; Conceptual Framework; 2 Political Environment: Stability, Public Spending and Policy; National Development Strategy and Education Policy; Educational Effects on Political Development in Ghana; Conclusion: Political Environment; 3 Macroeconomics: Skills, Diversification, Economic Structure and Growth; Interconnections Between Economic Growth and the Education Sector
The Economic Structure and Agricultural Dependency Helps Crowd Out Human CapitalConclusion: Macroeconomic Environment; 4 Geography and the Tale of Two Ghanas: The North-South Divide; The North-South Educational Divide; Rurality; Distance to School; Urbanisation and Population Density; Multifactor Educational Deprivation by Geographic Location; Conclusion and Policy Implications: The Geographic Isolation of the North; 5 Health Status of Children: Vulnerability and Educational Effects; The Complementary Nature of Health Status and Schooling; Fertility Rates; Malnutrition; Malaria; HIVAIDS Water and SanitationComparison of Health Outcomes by Educational Level and Cost-Benefit Analysis; Conclusion and Policy Implications: The Intersectorality of Health and Education; 6 Economics of Education: Household Welfare, Poverty and Child Labour; Economic Background Characteristics: Effects on Access and Outcomes; Out-Of-Pocket Expenditure (Private Costs) for Education; Levels of Education: Effects on Income; Private and Social Rates of Return to Education; Child Labour; Regression Analysis on School and Labour Participation in Ghana: Establishing Determinants Conclusion: Economics of Education, Poverty and Child Labour7 Demographics: Population Growth, Household Structure and Migration Patterns; 8 Policy Discussion: Outlining Policy Options and Solutions; 9 Conclusion: Coping Strategies, Emerging Challenges and Opportunities; Addressing the Main Research Questions; Coping Strategies; Emerging Challenges and Opportunities; References; Biography |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910438067603321 |
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Krauss Alexander
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| New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Food and identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth century Ghana : food, fights and regionalism / / Brandi Simpson Miller
| Food and identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth century Ghana : food, fights and regionalism / / Brandi Simpson Miller |
| Autore | Miller Brandi Simpson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
| Disciplina | 338.47664009667 |
| Collana | Food and Identity in a Globalising World |
| Soggetto topico |
Food industry and trade - Ghana
Food habits - Ghana |
| ISBN |
9783030884031
9783030884024 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910520074203321 |
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Miller Brandi Simpson
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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