Monday, March 12, 2018

Resource Curse coming to Ghana? What’s the World’s Fastest-Growing Economy? Ghana Contends for the Crown (via NY Times)

Discusses points we covered in class:  apparent 'boom'; decline in manufacturing; rise in currency valuation; the challenge of economic diversification... can Ghana outsmart the resource curse?

What’s the World’s Fastest-Growing Economy? Ghana Contends for the Crown
Street salesmen in Accra, Ghana’s capital. The country is likely to have one of the world’s fastest-growing economies this year. CreditAshley Gilbertson for The New York Times