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Cultural Capital in Ghana How the cooperative maximizes its potential to create locally driven economic development in rural communities

by Dan Baum Abstract This paper demonstrates how cultural traditions and norms, or “cultural capital” can be used to spark local economic development in rural Ghana. I show that the cooperative fits especially well with rural Ghanaian cultural institutions and, as a result, is the economic structure best suited to maximizing the developmental potential found […]

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