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African Merchants of the Gold Coast, 1860–1905—Dynamics of Indigenous Entrepreneurship
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The most popular approach among economic anthropologists and sociologists has been to conduct group surveys of the attitudes and behavior of small-scale traders and market-stall operators against the background of specific urban or rural settings as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Entrepreneurship in Africa can be analyzed from a number of perspectives. One approach, undoubtedly the most popular among economic anthropologists and sociologists, has been to conduct group surveys of the attitudes and behavior of small-scale traders and market-stall operators against the background of specific urban or rural settings. These studies have emphasized the importance of religion, ethnic group affiliation, family or clan structure, specialization, and the development of long-distance trading networks through migration or diaspora. Another type of study pioneered by Polly Hill, and since taken up by other field economists and historians, has been to analyze the individual innovation, cooperative effort, and adaptation of traditional institutions involved in the development of export crop agriculture (groundnuts, cocoa, coffee) by small farmers in Africa.read more
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The Achieving Society
TL;DR: The authors argued that cultural customs and motivations, especially the motivation for achievement, are the major catalysts of economic growth and proposed a plan to accelerate economic growth in developing countries by encouraging and supplementing their achievement motives through mobilizing the greater achievement resources of developed countries.
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Perspectives on fifty years of ghanaian historiography
TL;DR: Ghana has had a long span of historical writing dating back several centuries, but a tradition of Ghanaian historiography is only about 50 years old, as is the case with the development of national historiographies throughout much of Africa as discussed by the authors.
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"The Devil We Know": Gold Coast Consumers, Local Employees, and the United Africa Company, 1940–1960
TL;DR: In this article, the country's first Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah inaugurated the opening of the Kingsway, Accra, the largest department store in Ghana, which was well known throughout British West Africa as a chain of urban retail outlets.
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The Achieving Society
TL;DR: This paper argued that cultural customs and motivations, especially the motivation for achievement, are the major catalysts of economic growth and proposed a plan to accelerate economic growth in developing countries by encouraging and supplementing their achievement motives through mobilizing the greater achievement resources of developed countries.
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The Achieving Society
TL;DR: This article argued that cultural customs and motivations, especially the motivation for achievement, are the major catalysts of economic growth and proposed a plan to accelerate economic growth in developing countries by encouraging and supplementing their achievement motives through mobilizing the greater achievement resources of developed countries.
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A Treatise on Political Economy
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