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Item Implementation dynamics of local economic development: Comparative empirical experiences from Ghana’s local governance system(Local Economy, 2020) Agbevade, A.There has been an age old assertion that once public policies are formulated, the policies will automatically be implemented to achieve their stated objectives. To unravel this, the article through comparative empirical analysis discussed the dynamics that influenced local economic development implementation in Ghana. It emerged that four key dynamics: politics, leadership commitment and will, land tenure system and administrative, institutional and procedural mech anisms differently shaped local economic development implementation in the three local govern ment units. Whereas these factors promoted local economic development implementation in some of the assemblies, it hindered its successful implementation in others. The findings of this article are of significance to local economic development and local governance practitioners and politicians as they strife to implement local economic development policies.Item Diplomacy of Architecture: Ghana, China and 60 Years of Spatial Engagement(Springer Nature, 2022) Adu Amoah, L.G.Abstract Africa- Asia relations entered upon a particularly intense and mutually entangling phase in the last two decades of the twentieth century; this process continues apace in this century. To be sure these relations have a long temporal sweep. Understanding holistically contemporary Ghana-China relations, and in particular the ways in which the manipulation of space has intervened upon and shaped the interaction must be located within this temporal sweep. Methodologically this work will engage discursively with the historical and contemporary information on some of China’s key construction and architectural activities in Ghana over the last six decades with the central aim of teasing out the changes and continuities (ideological, institutional, ideational and strategic) that have marked such undertakings. This work introduces in the process the idea of diplomacy of architecture as a useful analytic lens for exploring Africa-China relations.Item The absence of social capital and the failure of the Ghanian neoliberal mental model(Neoliberalism: National and Regional Experiments with Global Ideas, 2006-12) Amponsah, N.; Denzau, A.T.; Roy, R.K.In the 1980s, Ghana sought to institute market liberalization reforms based on policy prescriptions outlined by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the World Bank known as Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs). SAPs were designed in accordance with a neoliberal framework known as the Washington Consensus (WC). The WC, a strand of the neoliberal shared mental model that was first coined by John Williamson, articulated a set of market-oriented policy prescriptions and goals that if pursued faithfully, would help encourage countries on the path to greater economic performance and prosperity. Such prescriptions included instructing governments to pursue policies and strategies aimed at promoting fiscal discipline, interest rate liberalization, privatization, deregulation of entrance and exit barriers, and establishing transparent and public-seeking institutions that are established to enforce and abide by a rule of law that would secure property rights and discourage predatory rent-seeking practices.