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- Review of: Dede Esi Amanor-Wilks and contributors. In search of hope for Zimbabwe's farm workers. London: Panos; Harare: DateLine Southern Africa, 1995
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Ibbo Mandaza (ed.). Zimbabwe: the political economy of transition, 1980-1986. Dakar: Codesria, 1986
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Sheila Stace. Vocational rehabilitation for women with disabilities. Geneva: ILO, 1986
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Reviews of: S. Kindervatter (ed). Doing a feasibility study. Washington DC: OEF, 1987, and S. Kindervatter with M. Range (eds.). Marketing strategy. Washington DC: OEF, 1986
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Tanzania's social policy is characterised by three dominant regimes, although with some overlapping elements of selectivism and universalism. It is shown that the process of social policy formulation can be initiated by technocrats, or task forces at ministerial level. However, the process is long and cumbersome. The country lacks a comprehensive national social policy but has instead sectoral social policies. Implementing agents are communities, NGOs, and government institutions while the implementation process is top-down. The main funders of social policy include government, donors, NGOs, individuals and religious institutions. Tanzania's social policy research capacity is very weak. There is no institutionalised social policy research and consequently there is a need to strengthen social policy research capacity.
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: John W. Warnock. The politics of hunger. London: Methuen, 1987
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The IMF-WorldBank economic policy packages embodied in President Babangida's Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) provide overt encouragement to the fostering of an unregulated, dependent capitalist development model, while allowing only a supportive role for the government in a refurbished economic environment of highly reduced government ownership and control of enterprises. Inflation has assumed a doomsday scenario since the inception of the SAP in July 1986 (from 5,4% in 1986 to 40,9% in 1989), and is threatening to destroy the very fabric of Nigerian society. It is the principle price of Babangida's SAP measures, which include external debt management strategies, SFEM/FEM/IEEM, removal of subsidies on petroleum products and fertiliser, privatisation and commercialisation, trade liberalisation, and interest rate deregulation. This SAP-induced inflation has resulted in adverse income redistribution, leading to increased personal insecurity and lessened personal satisfaction, while heightening interpersonal and institutional tensions and deterring investment and inhibiting consumer spending. Other costs include the depletion of external reserves; a worsening balance of payments position; the diversion of managerial talent from managing production, maintaining efficiency and innovating, in favour of manoeuvring and speculation for protection against (or benefit from) inflation. This paper recommends abandoning the "old-timereligion'of orthodox policies in favour of" shock treatment' embodied in herterodox policies, including monetary reform, exchange rate reform, tax-based prices policy (TPP), fiscal policy reform, etc.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Frank Jarle Bruun, Mbulawa Mugabe, Yolande Coombes (eds.). The situation of the elderly in Botswana. Gaborone: University of Botswana, National Institute of Development Research and Documentation; Oslo: University of Oslo, Centre for Development and the Environment, 1994
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa