Lindsay Whitfield is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde Universitet, Denmark. She is the author of The Politics of African Industrial Policy: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2015), The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors (2008), and Turning Points in African Democracy (2008). She is also the current co-editor of African Affairs (one of the leading journals in African studies).
1. Ghanaian political economy and the politics of industrial policy; 2.
Origins of competitive clientelism and weak domestic capitalists; 3. Return
to competitive clientelism in the fourth republic; 4. Economic growth, but
maintaining the colonial trading economy; 5. Challenges to diversifying
exports: accessing global markets and learning to learn; 6. Challenges to
modernizing agro-processing: struggles over inputs, organizing
smallholders, and enforcing contracts; 7. NPP government and the not so
'Golden Age of Business'; 8. NDC II Government and managing the new oil
wealth.