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The Role of Small Towns in Regional Development and Poverty Reduction in Ghana

George Owusu

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2008, vol. 32, issue 2, 453-472

Abstract: Abstract Ghana, like many other countries in sub‐Saharan Africa, lacks a clearly articulated urban development strategy. Urban growth has been rapid but largely uncontrolled. Ghana's adoption of a decentralization programme in 1988 focused some attention on small towns. The country's more recent adoption of the Millennium Development Goals and other specific poverty reduction strategies requires more concerted state promotion of small towns. Improved service provision and delivery through small towns is a necessary component of any successful poverty reduction or regional development strategy. Résumé Le Ghana, comme de nombreux autres pays de l’Afrique subsaharienne, manque de stratégie d’aménagement urbain claire et explicite. L’expansion urbaine a été rapide et généralement non maîtrisée. Le Ghana ayant lancé un programme de décentralisation en 1988, les petites villes ont bénéficié d’un certain intérêt. L’adoption plus récente des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement, ainsi que d’autres stratégies de réduction de la pauvreté, implique davantage de concertation dans la promotion gouvernementale des petites villes. Une amélioration de la mise à disposition des services dans les petites villes constitue un élément nécessaire à toute réussite en matière de réduction de la pauvreté ou de stratégie de développement régional.

Date: 2008
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