Social Policy in Sub-Saharan African Context: In Search of Inclusive Development

by J. Adésínà (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349355884
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Series:	Social Policy in a Development Context
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ROSEMARY ATIENO Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya
PATRICK BOND Director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
CHACHAGE SEITHY L. CHACHAGE Professor of Sociology, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Member of the Executive Committee of CODESRIA
ABDUL-GANIYU GARBA Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
FRED T. HENDRICKS Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Rhodes University, South Africa
OKA OBONO Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Fellow of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Temporary Advisor to the World Health Organization and the African Programme on Onchocerciasis Control; National Consultant to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
ALFRED OUMA SHEM Analyst at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis
BOLA UDEGBE Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Figures Foreword Preface List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on Contributors Social Policy and the Quest for Inclusive Development: Introduction; J.Adésínà Ruling Ideas and Social Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Assessment of Nationalist, Keynesian and Neoliberal Paradigms; A.G.Garba Social Policy and Development in East Africa: The Case of Education and Labour Market Policies; C.S.L.Chachage Education, Employment and Development in Southern Africa: The Role of Social Policy in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe; F.T.Hendricks Social Policy and the Challenge of Development in Nigeria and Ghana: The Cases of Education and Labour Market Policies; B.Udegbe The Role of Social Policy in Development: Health, Water and Sanitation in East Africa; R.Atieno & A.Ouma Shem The Socio-Political Structure of Accumulation and Social Policy in Southern Africa; P.Bond Social Policy in the Development Context: Water, Health and Sanitation in Ghana and Nigeria; O.Obono Index

Editorial Reviews

'Reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future, and examines a range of policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare.' - International Social Security Review

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