Kofi Takyi Asante
Biographic Data
| ID | 4098917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kofi Takyi Asante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kofi Takyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Asante |
| SIGNATURE | ASANTE K T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8459-1375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond the moralistic framework
Despite its potential to improve accountability, decentralization in Ghana has not curbed corruption. Using a criminological lens, this study reconceptualizes corruption not merely as a deviation from “good governance” norms but as the logical outcome of three closely connected processes: motivation, opportunity, and weak sanctions. Based on qualitative interviews and analysis of secondary data from official documents and media reports, the findi…
Inclusive proletarianisation? Salt mining, outgrower schemes and the politics of dispossession
Neoliberal Hegemony and the Narrowing Discursive Space for Social Policymaking in Africa
The transformative social policies pursued by the first generation of leaders across independent West Africa were eclipsed in the 1980s by residual social policy based on means testing where social provisioning was subjected to market rationalization. Using an ideational lens to reflect on the influences and shifts in social policymaking in West Africa, we demonstrate how the changes in the sub-region and across the continent were enabled by the …
Associations do not survive here
Collective action through farmer-based organisations (FBOs) could potentially improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers by opening up access to credit and inputs, overcoming market constraints, and reducing transaction costs. However, in the absence of strong or well-functioning farmer associations, the cost of market participation is likely to exacerbate economic hardships and inequalities among smallholders. Based on qualitative data from …
Heterogeneous market participation channels and household welfare
This paper uses panel data and qualitative interviews from southwestern Ghana to analyse farmers' heterogeneous oil palm marketing decisions and the effect on household welfare. We show that despite the supposed benefits that smallholders could derive from participation in global agribusiness value chains via formal contracts, such arrangements are rare although two of Ghana's 'big four' industrial oil palm companies are located in the study area…
“You cannot rely on bank loans to expand your business”
Purpose The marginalisation of female entrepreneurs in accessing credit is well documented. Yet, how female entrepreneurs navigate through the marginalisation to gain funding is under-explored. Design/methodology/approach The authors address this gap using qualitative data from 30 female entrepreneurs in three neighbourhoods with varying socio-economic characteristics in Ghana's capital, Accra. Findings The authors find a marked aversion to bank …
The political economy of natural resource conflicts in Ghana
Post-Covid economic crisis, citizen-state relations, and the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy) controversy in Ghana
The politics of policy failure in Ghana
The paper argues that political economy factors have hindered the development of the oil palm value chain in Ghana, which has consistently underperformed despite significant policy support and the sector's strategic importance to the national economy. These factors include political instability between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, as well as the emergence of a competitive clientelist political settlement since the country's return to constituti…
What are we celebrating?”
National day celebrations are high points in the nation-building project during which citizens and leaders recommit themselves to the “national cause”. But owing to the poignant feelings that these celebrations evoke and the essentially open-ended nature of the nation-building project, rival political factions prefer to use such occasions to assert competing narratives of the nation and to contest authorised visions of the future. These competing…
Individualistic and Collectivistic Orientations
Ethnicity is regarded as the greatest threat to national attachment by both politicians and scholars. However, ethnicity is only one of the many forms of identification which could potentially clash with national attachment. This study therefore examines the relationship between ethnicity and national attachment by asking a general question: what is the impact of alternative group loyalties on national attachment? To answer this question, I devel…
Nested Patriotism
Intimate Knowledge of the Country”
This article examines conflicts around questions of policy formulation and the intrusion of private interests in official actions which arose between factions in the early British colonial administration in the Gold Coast. The circumstances surrounding the transfer of administrative control from the Company of Merchants to the Colonial Office generated distrust and hostility between two British factions on the coast: merchants and metropolitan ap…
Intimate Knowledge of the Country
This article examines conflicts around questions of policy formulation and the intrusion of private interests in official actions which arose between factions in the early British colonial administration in the Gold Coast. The circumstances surrounding the transfer of administrative control from the Company of Merchants to the Colonial Office generated distrust and hostility between two British factions on the coast: merchants and metropolitan ap…
Truly National? Social Exclusion and the Ghana@50 Celebrations
In 2007, Ghana celebrated fifty years as an independent nation. The program drawn up to commemorate this occasion, dubbed Ghana@50 , was described as an opportunity to “celebrate, reflect and look forward.”[2][1] Thus, while much was written and said about the Ghana@50 program—especially about
Individualistic and Collectivistic Orientations
Ethnicity is regarded as the greatest threat to national attachment by both politicians and scholars. However, ethnicity is only one of the many forms of identification which could potentially clash with national attachment. This study therefore examines the relationship between ethnicity and national attachment by asking a general question: what is the impact of alternative group loyalties on national attachment? To answer this question, I devel…
Intimate Knowledge of the Country
This article examines conflicts around questions of policy formulation and the intrusion of private interests in official actions which arose between factions in the early British colonial administration in the Gold Coast. The circumstances surrounding the transfer of administrative control from the Company of Merchants to the Colonial Office generated distrust and hostility between two British factions on the coast: merchants and metropolitan ap…
Nested Patriotism
Post-Covid economic crisis, citizen-state relations, and the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy) controversy in Ghana
The politics of policy failure in Ghana
The paper argues that political economy factors have hindered the development of the oil palm value chain in Ghana, which has consistently underperformed despite significant policy support and the sector's strategic importance to the national economy. These factors include political instability between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, as well as the emergence of a competitive clientelist political settlement since the country's return to constituti…
What are we celebrating?”
National day celebrations are high points in the nation-building project during which citizens and leaders recommit themselves to the “national cause”. But owing to the poignant feelings that these celebrations evoke and the essentially open-ended nature of the nation-building project, rival political factions prefer to use such occasions to assert competing narratives of the nation and to contest authorised visions of the future. These competing…
Truly National? Social Exclusion and the Ghana@50 Celebrations
In 2007, Ghana celebrated fifty years as an independent nation. The program drawn up to commemorate this occasion, dubbed Ghana@50 , was described as an opportunity to “celebrate, reflect and look forward.”[2][1] Thus, while much was written and said about the Ghana@50 program—especially about
Intimate Knowledge of the Country”
This article examines conflicts around questions of policy formulation and the intrusion of private interests in official actions which arose between factions in the early British colonial administration in the Gold Coast. The circumstances surrounding the transfer of administrative control from the Company of Merchants to the Colonial Office generated distrust and hostility between two British factions on the coast: merchants and metropolitan ap…
Intimate Knowledge of the Country
This article examines conflicts around questions of policy formulation and the intrusion of private interests in official actions which arose between factions in the early British colonial administration in the Gold Coast. The circumstances surrounding the transfer of administrative control from the Company of Merchants to the Colonial Office generated distrust and hostility between two British factions on the coast: merchants and metropolitan ap…
Nested Patriotism
Individualistic and Collectivistic Orientations
Ethnicity is regarded as the greatest threat to national attachment by both politicians and scholars. However, ethnicity is only one of the many forms of identification which could potentially clash with national attachment. This study therefore examines the relationship between ethnicity and national attachment by asking a general question: what is the impact of alternative group loyalties on national attachment? To answer this question, I devel…
What are we celebrating?”
National day celebrations are high points in the nation-building project during which citizens and leaders recommit themselves to the “national cause”. But owing to the poignant feelings that these celebrations evoke and the essentially open-ended nature of the nation-building project, rival political factions prefer to use such occasions to assert competing narratives of the nation and to contest authorised visions of the future. These competing…
The politics of policy failure in Ghana
The paper argues that political economy factors have hindered the development of the oil palm value chain in Ghana, which has consistently underperformed despite significant policy support and the sector's strategic importance to the national economy. These factors include political instability between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, as well as the emergence of a competitive clientelist political settlement since the country's return to constituti…
Heterogeneous market participation channels and household welfare
This paper uses panel data and qualitative interviews from southwestern Ghana to analyse farmers' heterogeneous oil palm marketing decisions and the effect on household welfare. We show that despite the supposed benefits that smallholders could derive from participation in global agribusiness value chains via formal contracts, such arrangements are rare although two of Ghana's 'big four' industrial oil palm companies are located in the study area…
“You cannot rely on bank loans to expand your business”
Purpose The marginalisation of female entrepreneurs in accessing credit is well documented. Yet, how female entrepreneurs navigate through the marginalisation to gain funding is under-explored. Design/methodology/approach The authors address this gap using qualitative data from 30 female entrepreneurs in three neighbourhoods with varying socio-economic characteristics in Ghana's capital, Accra. Findings The authors find a marked aversion to bank …
The political economy of natural resource conflicts in Ghana
Post-Covid economic crisis, citizen-state relations, and the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy) controversy in Ghana
Neoliberal Hegemony and the Narrowing Discursive Space for Social Policymaking in Africa
The transformative social policies pursued by the first generation of leaders across independent West Africa were eclipsed in the 1980s by residual social policy based on means testing where social provisioning was subjected to market rationalization. Using an ideational lens to reflect on the influences and shifts in social policymaking in West Africa, we demonstrate how the changes in the sub-region and across the continent were enabled by the …
Associations do not survive here
Collective action through farmer-based organisations (FBOs) could potentially improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers by opening up access to credit and inputs, overcoming market constraints, and reducing transaction costs. However, in the absence of strong or well-functioning farmer associations, the cost of market participation is likely to exacerbate economic hardships and inequalities among smallholders. Based on qualitative data from …
Beyond the moralistic framework
Despite its potential to improve accountability, decentralization in Ghana has not curbed corruption. Using a criminological lens, this study reconceptualizes corruption not merely as a deviation from “good governance” norms but as the logical outcome of three closely connected processes: motivation, opportunity, and weak sanctions. Based on qualitative interviews and analysis of secondary data from official documents and media reports, the findi…
Inclusive proletarianisation? Salt mining, outgrower schemes and the politics of dispossession
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