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- Phase II of the study was concerned with identifying two particular non-formal social security schemes. We selected for analysis the chilimba and market associations because they raised practical policy-related issues, seemed to address priorities, covered priority groups, (the poor and most vulnerable in urban and some parts of rural areas) and also addressed immediate and future needs, especially market associations. These are the non-formal social security schemes that have the most potential for strengtheninf5 by a policy regime that recognizes each individual's need to have some form of social security, identifies non-formal security schemes and their members' needs and then offers training in basic skills of leadership and management, business and entrepreneurship and expanding employment opportunities so that more people can earn enough to pay for formal social security.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Through colonialism and the assimilation of foreign values, people in the excolony are now a cultural hybrid. The local elites who occupy the commanding heights in policy/decision making in Nigeria have been at the forefront of the acceptance and transmission of this new cultural product though various channels, an important part of which is the media. Nigerian women are a growing and active part of this elite structure. One important consequence of the merging of the external component of imperialism which is still being fuelled in the neo-colonial setting by the reality of dependency and economic restructuring and the local component of imperialism, is that it is now difficult to continue to see imperialism strictly as an external imposition.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Nathan Hurvitz and Roger A. Straus. Marriage and family therapy. New York: Haworth Press, 1991
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This paper examines some of the factors that are impacting negatively on the welfareof African families. This comes in the wakeof the International Year of the Family which sought to draw the attention of governments to the need to develop appropriate and sustainable strategies for enhancing the welfare of the family. It is postulated that the economic crises facing many African countries represents the biggest single threat to the welfare of African families. Thus, this paper argues that finding a solution to the economic crisis is a prerequisite for safeguarding the welfare of the family. Other factors that are crucial in enhancing the welfare of African families include extending social security and population control services to the majority of the people. The author observes that African governments will need to transform their rhetoric into concrete programmes of action if there are going to be an spin-off benefits from observing the International Year of the Family.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This article looks at a system by which children contract to work for tea estates as a condition of attendance at their boarding schools. The children have very little free time and the conditions are harsh. Nevertheless, attendance at the school is by choice and the schools offer opportunities for many who would not otherwise get to school. They even offer some advantages to those children who have alternatives available. The interests of these children would not be served by simply banning this form of labour.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Review of: Philip Frankel, Noam Pines and Mark Swilling (eds.). State, resistance and change in South Africa. London: Croom Helm, 1988
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This survey examines the cultural practices associated with death in the Nyanga North area of Zimbabwe and their impact on widows and orphans in 211 families. In addition to the concepts of pre-planning for death, property and wife inheritance, relevant aspects of life such as marriage, patriarchal succession and sickness are also considered. It is unclear what pattern of care and support for widows is emerging to replace the declining practice of wife inheritance. The implication of these factors on the planning of effective intervention strategies is considered.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Review of: Andrea Booth, John McCullum, James Mpinga & Mutizwa Mukute. State of the environment in southern Africa. Harare: SARDC, 1994
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Review of: Susan George. A fate worse than debt. London: Penguin Books, 1988
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement about news books from Swedish publisher Bethany Books in Stockholm
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa