Despite Ghana's strong democratic track record in recent decades, the economy remains underdeveloped. Industrial policies are necessary to transform the colonial trading economy that Ghana inherited at independence, but successive governments have been unwilling or unable to implement them. In...

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Media Response -- State by State Comparisons & Rankings -- Profiles -- Family of Four Depend on Ford Motor Company Job -- Family Life in a Planned Community -- Farmer Finds Second Career Creating Insurance Just for Farmers -- Family Wiped Out by Stock Market Crash...

Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...