Includes index.

Contents: Part I: Thematics issues: Ghana at sixty:learning from a developing African nation's past -- W. Arthur Lewis and the roots of Ghanaian Economic Policy -- Property and freedom -- Part II: Macroeconomy and finance: Economic growth in Ghana: trends and structure, 1960-2014 -- Sixty years of fiscal policy in Ghana: outcomes and lessons -- Monetary policy and inflation management in Ghana: inflation targeting and outcomes -- Trade and exchange rate policies since independence and prospects for the future -- Banking and capital markets: the evolution of Ghana's financial sector and future prospects -- Oil and Ghana's economy -- Part III: Sectoral perspectives: Flickering decades of agriculture and agricultural policy -- Industrial policy in Ghana: from a dominant state to resource abundance -- Formal and informal enterprise as drivers and absorbers of employment -- Urbanization in Ghana: retrospect and prospects -- State of Ghana's infrastructure and its implications for economic development -- Managing the environment for development -- Mining in Ghana: critical reflections on a turbulent past and uncertain future -- Part IV: Human development: Inequality and poverty in Ghana -- Employment and labour market -- Closing the gender gaps in Ghana -- The prospects and challenges olf a youthful population in achieving economic and social transformation in Ghana -- Education in Ghana: access, quality, and prospects for reforms -- Health and healthcare in Ghana, 1957-2017 -- Social health insurance in Ghana: the politics, economics, and the future.