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Globalization and social policy in Africa / edited by Tade Akin Aina, Chachage Seithy L. Chachage & Elisabeth Annan-Yao.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Codesria book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social policy.
- Africa--Social policy.
- Africa.
- Africa--Social conditions--1960-.
- Social conditions.
- Africa--Economic conditions--1960-.
- Economic conditions.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa ; Oxford, UK : Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, [2004]
- Summary:
- Drawing for the most part on empirical and historical studies, the contributors elucidate how ordinary African understand, confront and relate to the complex and competing forces of globalisation. They examine how contemporary and historical dynamics have shaped the ways in which globalisation is interacting with, and defining oft-neglected areas of social policy. The authors engage with, and question current, dominant orthodoxies, showing how prevailing economic thinking, particularly that of the dominant multilateral institutions, has undermined a sense of the importance of social policies relevant to a mode of economic development attuned to social transformation in Africa.
- Contents:
- Introduction: How do we understand globalization and social policy in Africa? / Tade Akin Aina
- PART I: ECONOMIC AND REGIONAL TRENDS
- Economic globalization, market reforms and social welfare services in West Africa / Said Adejumobi
- Globalization and the South African transformation: the impact on social policy / Zine Magubane
- Globalization and social ambivalence in the Maghreb / Hakim Ben Hammouda
- PART II: POVERTY AND SOCIAL SERVICES PROVISION
- Global and local factors and the welfare of the poor in Ethiopia: 1974-1997 / Dejene Aredo
- Economic reforms and social policies in Senegal / Alfred Inis Ndiaye
- Urban development policies and infrastructures in Nigeria / Mohammed Bello Yunusa
- PART III: GLOBALIZATION, WOMEN'S WORK AND CITIZENSHIP
- Globalization, women's work intensity and household well-being in Nigeria / Chukwuemeka U. Okoye, Uzoma O. Okoye
- The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) and urban poverty among wage earners in South-Eastern Nigeria / Anugwom Edlyne
- Globalization and refugee policy in Africa: reflexions on contemporary humanitarianism / Okechukwu Ibeanu
- PART IV: HIGHER EDUCATION AND GLOBALIZATION
- Higher education transformation and academic exterminism: the case of South Africa / Chachage S.L. Chachage
- Globalization and university education in Nigeria / Ogoh Alubo
- Globalization, Islam and social policy in Kenya / Edwin A. Gimode
- Harambee self-help in Kenya: an interplay between the local and the global / Pius Kakai Wanyonyi
- Conclusion - future agenda: beyond globalization? / Chachage S.L. Chachage, Elisabeth Anan-Yao.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 286978130X
- OCLC:
- 59002710
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