The Impact of Institutions on the Salt Sector in Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5153027 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alhassan Atta-Quayson (0000-0003-2483-8484, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 75-92 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/africatoday.69.3.04 |
| OpenAlex | W4365505501 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The effectiveness of the institutional framework—customs, traditions, laws, regulations, policies—that governs the salt sector in Ghana is here assessed using the political-settlement approach. This framework has minimal effects on the sector, which has been producing considerably below its potential for decades. The resulting pattern of a poor-distant-cousin characterization of the salt sector explains its historically poor performance. Politics, power, and institutional forms are characterized by different political processes and incentives to produce different economic outcomes; hence political-settlement literature can address weaknesses in the mainstream conceptualization of institutions
Conceptualization · Cousin · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Incentive · Mainstream · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Settlement (finance) · Finance · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Natural Resources and Economic Development
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |