Do you have any specific knowledge about Ghanaian industry or is this just your opinion? Can you provide some sources for your claims?
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Why would the Ghanaian government be any better at economic planning than the Argentinian or Indian ones? Sometimes industrial policy “works”, as in South Korea or Japan. But we have no strong reason to believe either would have failed to develop without government help. Hong Kong didn’t need it. People talk about the successes of industrial planning a lot but Argentina and India aren’t the only countries to piss away enormous resources propping up domestic industries that vanished in a puff of smoke as soon as they stopped being protected by tariffs or non tax trade barriers.
Maybe you would want to research what Japan and South Korea have in common and what Argentina has different. Hint: it involves something that starts with U and ends with SA
SK's recovery from the war was very sluggish for a decade until a military coup, protectionist economic polices, nationalization and multi-$B US economic donations.