IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/aaechp/978-3-031-12378-8_16.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Strengthening Citizen’s Participation in Local Economic Development for Sustainability in Ghana

In: Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development

Author

Listed:
  • Jacob Olufemi Fatile

    (Lagos University)

  • Omoniyi Victor Ajulor

    (Lagos University)

  • Busayo Qazeem Ibikunle

    (Lagos University)

  • Adeniyi Olamide Eweje

    (Lagos University)

Abstract

This chapter focuses on Ghana’s experiences with decentralized local economic development. The rationale behind this choice is that Ghana in recent times has introduced Local Economic Development (LED) as a strategy for enhanced economic growth. After decades of experience with LED, Ghana’s case provides a unique opportunity to assess the significance of people’s participation to development. The chapter evaluates the extent to which citizens’ participation in local economic development through exportation of local goods and services can promote sustainable economic development in Ghana. In addition, it examines the challenges of local economic development.

Suggested Citation

  • Jacob Olufemi Fatile & Omoniyi Victor Ajulor & Busayo Qazeem Ibikunle & Adeniyi Olamide Eweje, 2022. "Strengthening Citizen’s Participation in Local Economic Development for Sustainability in Ghana," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei & Samuel Adu-Gyamfi (ed.), Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development, pages 271-280, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-031-12378-8_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-12378-8_16
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-031-12378-8_16. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.