From Poverty to Prosperity: How Ghana can become an Industrialized Nation in 20 years: 1

Ghana is one of Africa's most stable democracies. It has gold, oil, cocoa, and a young population. So why is it still poor?From Poverty to Prosperity does not answer that question with excuses. It answers it with a plan.In this provocative and meticulously argued book, Bernard Lemuel Zerubbabel Baah makes the case that Ghana's poverty is not inevitable - it is a choice. A choice to keep exporting raw materials instead of finished goods. A choice to import what we could manufacture. A choice to consume what others produce, and produce only what others will consume.That choice can be reversed. And this book shows exactly how.Drawing on the economic histories of South Korea, Singapore, Germany, and China - countries that were poorer than Ghana within living memory - Baah builds a detailed, sector-by-sector blueprint for how Ghana can industrialise within twenty years. Not in theory. In practice. With specific industries, specific policies, and an honest account of the obstacles that have stopped every previous attempt.This book will challenge you on: - Why Ghana keeps failing to industrialise despite decades of "development" programmes- Which industries Ghana can dominate - and why it hasn't started yet- What other countries actually did to break out of the resource trap- What citizens, entrepreneurs, and policymakers can do right nowThis is not a book of complaints about colonialism. It is not a book of vague inspiration about Africa's potential. It is a serious, specific, honest argument for what Ghana is capable of - and what it will take to get there.If you believe Ghana can be more than it is, this book was written for you.