Market Reforms and the State

The Case of Shea in Ghana

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ID4902271
AutoresB Chalfin (0000-0001-9748-4715, autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume34
Fascículo3
Páginas421-440
Data de publicação1996-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022278x00055531
OpenAlexW2111083759
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas9

AMajorthrust of structural adjustment in Ghana, as elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, is the promotion of the private sector coupled with the diminution of state-owned enterprises (SOEs).1However, while these are sometimes undermined, as when shares are sold to private buyers or assets liquidated, their complete demise in the course of market reform is not always so clear cut. This is the case when SOEs are themselves restructured in order to become more market-oriented, or when they are charged with overseeing private sector development. In such a situation, state-based companies may lose a share of the market as they are forced to compete with private firms, while at the same time extending their purview as a regulator of a diversifying economic sector. The parastatals involved in Ghana's shea economy are characterised by this sort of ambivalent status

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