The Nature, Significance, and Cost of Rent Seeking in Ghana.
Rent seeking involves wasteful expenses. This paper explores the nature, significance, and cost of rent seeking in Ghana, a small developing country with substantial government intervention in economy activity, using the methods for India of Krueger (1974) and Mohammad and Whalley (1984). However, rent-seeking cost is measured not only by import licenses for which foreign exchange is not available. The estimation of rent-seeking cost in Ghana is calculated for two different years, 1981, the end of the last elected civilian administration, and 1984, an era of military rule. Copyright 1991 by WWZ and Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG
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1991
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Authors: | Ampofu-Tuffuor, Emmanuel ; DeLorme Jr., Charles D ; Kamerschen, David R |
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Kyklos. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0023-5962. - Vol. 44.1991, 4, p. 537-59
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Wiley Blackwell |
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