Taking It All Apart

Edward Carr

Chapter Chapter 1 in Delivering Development, 2011, pp 1-18 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the early evening of July 8, 1997, I found myself sitting in the courtyard of a house in Dominase, a small rural village in Ghana’s Central Region. I was there to pay a social visit to some of the people who were kind enough to share the history of Dominase with me. It was pitch dark, and my 24-year-old Ghanaian research assistant, Francis Quayson, and I had walked about 500 meters from the slightly larger village of Ponkrum, where I was staying. We had used a flashlight to navigate the overgrown, uneven remnants of a dirt road between the two places. As per “official” local custom, I had brought a bottle of (appalling but cheap) local gin with me as a gift. This was accepted by Kwame, one of three brothers of the only family still living in this village. We sat and talked by his wife’s cook fire for a while, drinking the gin and discussing everything from the history of Dominase to the cost of living in the United States.

Keywords: Global Market; Millennium Development Goal; United Nations Environment Programme; Global Trade; ELIV ERING (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230319974_1

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