The Last Emerging Market: From Asian Tigers to African Lions? The Ghana File.(Book Review)

From: African Studies Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

The Last Emerging Market: From Asian Tigers to African Lions? The Ghana File. Nathaniel H. Bowditch. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999. 201 pp.

Nathaniel H. Bowditch, a self-described "public entrepreneur", went to Thailand as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1966 and subsequently worked in Malaysia and Sri Lanka, as well as New England, in a variety of economic and community development positions (p. xiv). In 1990, he went to Ghana as a United Nations project advisor. He writes that "none of [my previous experiences] prepared me for Ghana" (p. xiii). Nevertheless, he ...

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