The Impact of Institutions on the Salt Sector in Ghana

Africa Today Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.2979/africatoday.69.3.04

A. Atta-Quayson, Olufemi Babarinde, S. Wright, C. Rono, Ismaila Ouedraogo, R. Benedikter, Borlli Michel Jonas Somé, G. Diallo, P. Okpalaeke, Riti Sharma, Christi van der Westhuizen, Guido Nicolás Zingari, B. Riccio, P. Sakho, D. Cissokho, John F. Clark

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Abstract

Abstract:The effectiveness of the institutional framework—customs, traditions, laws, regulations, policies—that governs the salt sector in Ghana is here assessed using the political-settlement approach. This framework has minimal effects on the sector, which has been producing considerably below its potential for decades. The resulting pattern of a poor-distant-cousin characterization of the salt sector explains its historically poor performance. Politics, power, and institutional forms are characterized by different political processes and incentives to produce different economic outcomes; hence political-settlement literature can address weaknesses in the mainstream conceptualization of institutions.

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制度对加纳盐业的影响

摘要：管理加纳盐业的制度框架——习俗、传统、法律、法规和政策——的有效性在这里使用政治解决方法进行评估。这一框架对该行业的影响微乎其微，几十年来，该行业的产量一直远低于其潜力。由此产生的盐行业远房表亲特征不佳的模式解释了其历史上糟糕的表现。政治、权力和制度形式的特点是不同的政治过程和动机，以产生不同的经济结果；因此，政治解决文献可以解决主流制度概念化的弱点。

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Africa Today Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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