John D Esseks
Biographic Data
| ID | 1117614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John D Esseks |
| GIVEN NAMES | John D |
| FAMILY NAME | Esseks |
| SIGNATURE | ESSEKS J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The politics of food scarcities in developing countries
Barring the global catastrophe envisioned by the Club of Rome, poverty will prove a more intractable problem than low productivity in the Third World. Much greater attention will have to be paid to the distribution of income, jobs, and foodgrains in the future if increases in production are to actually reduce hunger. The failure of many countries to manage their food supplies adequately and to provide basic food security to their populations is e…
Political Independence and Economic Decolonization
A THEIR DATES of independence from colonial rule virtually all the new states of Asia and Africa faced a similar economic and political challenge: foreign private enterprise dominated many of the monetized sectors of their national economies and, in so doing, controlled the utilization of major proportions of the countries' natural, physical-capital, manpower, and financial resources.7 This paper examines how one new state confronted the phenomen…
Economic Dependence and Political Development in New States of Africa
Government and Indigenous Private Enterprise in Ghana
As their countries emerged from colonial status, indigenous private entrepreneurs in tropical Africa turned to their governments for what they regarded as indispensable assistance. African businessmen, hampered by strong expatriate competitors (in many cases dominating their sectors), by foreign-owned banks unwilling to provide them with necessary credits, by their own managerial weakness, and by other severe disabilities, concluded that the broa…
The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Political Independence and Economic Decolonization
A THEIR DATES of independence from colonial rule virtually all the new states of Asia and Africa faced a similar economic and political challenge: foreign private enterprise dominated many of the monetized sectors of their national economies and, in so doing, controlled the utilization of major proportions of the countries' natural, physical-capital, manpower, and financial resources.7 This paper examines how one new state confronted the phenomen…
The politics of food scarcities in developing countries
Barring the global catastrophe envisioned by the Club of Rome, poverty will prove a more intractable problem than low productivity in the Third World. Much greater attention will have to be paid to the distribution of income, jobs, and foodgrains in the future if increases in production are to actually reduce hunger. The failure of many countries to manage their food supplies adequately and to provide basic food security to their populations is e…
Economic Dependence and Political Development in New States of Africa
Government and Indigenous Private Enterprise in Ghana
As their countries emerged from colonial status, indigenous private entrepreneurs in tropical Africa turned to their governments for what they regarded as indispensable assistance. African businessmen, hampered by strong expatriate competitors (in many cases dominating their sectors), by foreign-owned banks unwilling to provide them with necessary credits, by their own managerial weakness, and by other severe disabilities, concluded that the broa…
The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Political Independence and Economic Decolonization
A THEIR DATES of independence from colonial rule virtually all the new states of Asia and Africa faced a similar economic and political challenge: foreign private enterprise dominated many of the monetized sectors of their national economies and, in so doing, controlled the utilization of major proportions of the countries' natural, physical-capital, manpower, and financial resources.7 This paper examines how one new state confronted the phenomen…
Economic Dependence and Political Development in New States of Africa
Government and Indigenous Private Enterprise in Ghana
As their countries emerged from colonial status, indigenous private entrepreneurs in tropical Africa turned to their governments for what they regarded as indispensable assistance. African businessmen, hampered by strong expatriate competitors (in many cases dominating their sectors), by foreign-owned banks unwilling to provide them with necessary credits, by their own managerial weakness, and by other severe disabilities, concluded that the broa…
The politics of food scarcities in developing countries
Barring the global catastrophe envisioned by the Club of Rome, poverty will prove a more intractable problem than low productivity in the Third World. Much greater attention will have to be paid to the distribution of income, jobs, and foodgrains in the future if increases in production are to actually reduce hunger. The failure of many countries to manage their food supplies adequately and to provide basic food security to their populations is e…
Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Development economics (2 works)