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-> | ||
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 |
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 |
Owusu J. Henry (John Henry), <1953-> | ||
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 |
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 |
Owusu J. Henry (John Henry), <1953-> | ||
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 |
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 |
Ouma Stefan | ||
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 |
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 |
Ouma Stefan | ||
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 |
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 |
Honorati Maddalena | ||
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 |
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 |
Honorati Maddalena | ||
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 |
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 |
Honorati Maddalena | ||
Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2016 | ||
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 |
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 |
Miller Brandi Simpson | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ghana : : Third Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement and Request for Waiver for Nonobservance of Performance Criteria, and Modifications of Performance Criteria-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Excutive Director for Ghana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (122 pages) : color illustrations, charts, graphs, tables |
Disciplina | 330.9667 |
Collana | IMF Staff Country Reports |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Ghana
Banks and Banking Exports and Imports Macroeconomics Public Finance Industries: Financial Services Taxation Investments: Energy Debt Debt Management Sovereign Debt Banks Depository Institutions Micro Finance Institutions Mortgages International Lending and Debt Problems Fiscal Policy Investment Capital Intangible Capital Capacity National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General Public finance & taxation International economics Finance Banking Investment & securities Public debt Fiscal consolidation External debt Debt rescheduling Expenditure Revenue administration Oil, gas and mining taxes Taxes Debts, External Debts, Public Fiscal policy Banks and banking Loans Expenditures, Public Revenue |
ISBN | 1-4755-4359-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136707903321 |
Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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