Social Policy in Sub-Saharan African Context

This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, focusing on healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare. What stands out from these studies is how well the post-colonial nationalist leaders understood the positive links between social policy, economic development, and nation building. The deficit of democratic governance is the more significant failing of the period. However, rather than fix the democratic deficit, these studies show that what structural adjustment programmes did was to undermine economic and social policy, while reducing governance to a set of instrumental objectives. Further, we need to transcend the idea of the state and civil society as antagonistic forces. Where this has happened, there has been successful extension of social protection and the widening of access to health and education. The lessons for rebuilding Africa are obvious: economic development and social policy are mutually inclusive, and active social policy promotes national cohesion.

ISBN 0230520839   Pages 280 ISBN13 9780230520837 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 464 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Format Hardback   Series title Social Policy in a Development Context Series Publication date 12 Jul 2007   Height (mm) 222 Library of Congress HN773.5   Width (mm) 141 DEWEY 320.60967   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate, Undergraduate

1		In search of inclusive development : introduction by Timi O. Adesina		1
2		Ruling ideas and social development in Sub-Saharan Africa : an assessment of nationalist, keynesian and neoliberal paradigms by Abdul-Ganiyu Garba		54
3		Social policy and development in East Africa : the case of education and labour market policies by Chachage Seithy L. Chachage		87
4		Education, employment and development in Southern Africa : the role of social policy in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe by Fred T. Hendricks		112
5		Social policy and the challenge of development in Nigeria and Ghana : the cases of education and labour market policies by Bola Udegbe		148
6		The role of social policy in development : health, water and sanitation in East Africa by Rosemary Atieno and Alfred Ouma Shem		171
7		The sociopolitical structure of accumulation and social policy in Southern Africa by Patrick Bond		198
8		Social policy in the development context : water, health and sanitation in Ghana and Nigeria by Oka Obono		224

'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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