Ghana: The Limits of External Democracy Assistance
Theo Yakah and
Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi
No wp-2012-040, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
Abstract:
Ghana's experience since the early 1990s indicates that external aid can significantly impact a country's democratic transition. External democracy assistance has been a crucial, positive factor in Ghana's steady evolution into an electoral democracy over the past two decades.
Keywords: Democracy; Economic assistance and foreign aid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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