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Author : J. Adésínà
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230590985
This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of social policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare, and highlight important conceptual and policy issues for rebuilding Africa.
Author : Jimi O. Adesina
Publisher : Codesria
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782382340455
The essays document the shifting trajectories of social policy in Africa, the current state of play in the field, and the alternative vision of social policy framed by the idea of Transformative Social Policy.
Author : J. Adésínà
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349355884
This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of social policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare, and highlight important conceptual and policy issues for rebuilding Africa.
Author : John Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317367421
First published in 1987, this book analyses social welfare in the major countries of Africa, at that time. For each country it considers the ideological framework underlying the social welfare system and describes the historical development of both the system and the political and socio-economic context. Each chapter looks at the structure and administration of the systems in place and how these are financed. Contributions examine the nature of the different parts of the welfare system, surveying social security, personal social services, and the treatment of the following key target groups: the aged; those with disabilities and handicaps; children and youth; disadvantaged families; the unemployed; and the sick and injured. Each chapter concludes with an assessment of the effectiveness of the system considered. In this book, particular attention is paid to the role of foreign aid agencies and to missionaries, and to the special problems of poverty and famine in Africa.
Author : T. Mkandawire
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230523978
Drawing upon both conceptual and empirical evidence, this volume argues the case for the centrality of social policy in development, focusing particularly on the message that social policy needs to be closely intertwined with economic policy. It is argued that social policy can provide the crucial link between economic development poverty eradication and equity. This volume is a significant contribution to thinking about social policy in a development context.
Author : Sam Hickey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198850344
"A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER)"
Author : Henry Kyambalesa
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781592212682
This book is designed to explore the following,challenges and imperatives for African countries,in the twenty-first century: liberalisation of,commercial and industrial activities in a,deliberate effort to make them the preserve of the,private sector, generation of an appropriate,industrial and trade strategy, nurturing,technological development, redressing the debt,burden, curbing industrial strife, protection of,the fragile natural environment, and,reconsideration of the size and functions of,government.
Author : Ian Gough
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521834193
Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.
Author : Apollo Rwomire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313003920
Despite the recent growth of research on social problems facing the people of sub-Saharan Africa, there remains a critical lack of conceptual, epistemological, and empirical research and documentation. This sophisticated new book attempts to fill that gap by synthesizing, interpreting, and extending the existing literature on conditions that constitute serious impediments to socio-economic development in Africa. It provides an original and up-to-date survey of key problems ranging from poverty and inequality to violence and crime. The contributors, all of whom have lived or worked in Africa, show how social problems emerge, how they are defined, and how various actors attempt to deal with them. This timely book provides a much needed analysis of the major issues and debates regarding the dynamics of social problems in the African context. Social Problems in Africa is broken into four parts. The first introduces readers to the nature of social problems in general and provides a framework for analyzing and understanding social problems in an African context. Part II, on culture, human rights and democracy, examines these crucial aspects of social problems in Africa, as well as issues such as language and colonialism. Part III focuses on poverty and inequality, while conflict and violence is the focus of Part IV. Together, the chapters in this volume provide the most comprehensive and systematic approach to the issues available, bringing much-needed attention to the problems in Africa from the perspective of scholars who have lived and worked there.
Author : Julien Bokilo
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1631816640
From the precolonial period to today, Julien Bokilo analyzes the effectiveness of social and economic measures undertaken for the development of the Republic of Congo with regard to all of sub-Saharan Africa. This documented and unprecedented sociohistorical study feeds on new perspectives in public policy planning, development and implementation. • The knowledge of specificities of poverty and exclusion in the African companies; • The possibility of making the correlation and the transposition of the principles of the public policies on the African facts, the case of the reintegration of the native populations and the albinos. In addition, the relevance of this work is in the fact that it tackles the question of the struggle against the poverty and the exclusion, which are problems whose recurrence is quasi endemic and alarming in process of the socio-economic and political development process of African countries. Also, in an economic context of unprecedented crisis in Republic of Congo and in the surrounding countries, the economic zone of the central Africa sub-area mainly, the social policies are of an interest somehow crucial for their capacities to suppress the harmful effects of the recessions. In fact, this work really meets a scientific expectation, as it is based on verifiable arguments, because founded on the theory and the facts.