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- This paper examines the impact of selected socio-economic factors including the work ethic and the level of participation in rural development performance via community development projects among the Nandi people of western Kenya. Data was sourced from a social survey of 27 randomly selected community development projects and a sample of329 respondents - the intended beneficiaries of the projects. The findings support the prediction that the prevailing work ethic, socio-economic factors and the participation in such projects have a paramount influence on community development performance. It is recommended that development planners, policymakers and implementers should look for new strategies of improving the community’s socio-economic status as well as promoting the work ethic and participation level because these are the factors responsible for the poor performance of community development projects.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The paper focuses on the interface between globalization and poverty reduction in Uganda, beginning with the advances in information technology that have transformed the globe into a virtual village. The paper presents the macroeconomic framework that has characterized the global economy and its distorted benefits to developing countries. The exchange parity between exports and imports in both factor and product markets has been skewed against poor countries such as Uganda, exacerbating rather than reducing poverty. It is argued that globalized markets require a competitive capacity that the Ugandan economy does not have. It is because of this that most sub-Saharan countries, including Uganda, have globalized through systemic shocks rather than making use of opportunities. Global competitiveness is, however, inevitable if the Ugandan economy is to catch up with global trends and patterns. Globalization can lead to adverse effects if poor countries open their economies without thinking. Globalization must be cautiously embraced if development is to be sustainable.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the Transaction Publishers
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Discusses women in Zimbabwe and development, especially in terms of their role as agricultural producers, their current situation, and the multiple problems in attempting to market their produce.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Desertification is land degradation in drylands. The United Nations Environment Programme estimates that one third of the drylands in Africa are affected by desertification at moderate or high degree and that 73 per cent of the total agriculturally used drylands are already degraded. While physical factors such as drought, desiccation and climate change can, and do, playa part, man however, is the primary agent of desertification. Man's role in causing desertification is revealed in the failure of his resource management practices. This paper emphasises that man's exploitative land use which serves as a primum mobile for desertification is itself a short-term response to socioeconomic and other pressures. The conclusion reached is that the fight against desertification can only succeed if the welfare of the people in the affected dryland area can be put at the centre of the development agenda and those adaptive strategies of their livelihood and production systems that confer drought resistance and/or lessen their susceptibility to drought and famine bolstered. Also, in an era of free trade and liberalisation, developed countries need to ensure that their policies help to alleviate instead of perpetuate poverty, and lead to the achievement of sustainable development and environmental protection within Africa.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The purpose of the sociological study was to look at behaviour related to hygiene in some detail. Because of the difficulties of obtaining information about something as private as hygienic practices, the study could focus only on a few families, looking for descriptive qualitative, rather than quantitative, data - even in the few cases studied, there were severe limitations to what could be observed. This article describes what was observed, and relates it to some of the data collected in the microbiological study.
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Transformation in the South African discourse refers to a process of transition from exclusion to inclusion in all spheres of daily life. This paper identifies inclusion as bringing wideranging changes in the lives of women farmers traditionally relegated to small-scale gardening at subsistence level. Although concerned with the historical issue of separate development particularly in gender and access terms, the paper focuses on an ongoing development project initiated with a small rural community in Colenso and monitored by the Farmer Support Group and the Centre for Adult and Community Education at the University of Natal, Durban. It discusses the Participatory Learning method applied and attempts to understand two critical factors. These are, firstly, how notions of equity, social justice and non-discrimination are understood and manifested through government policy and community experience. Secondly, the importance of the woman and her rural household in the practical interpretation of sustainable livelihoods and cultural practices which will lead to socio-economic transformation. The underlying assumption of all thoseinvolved in the project is that the participatory learning method is the method best able tofacilitate and measure the process of transition without dramatically alienating and distorting cultural traditions.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for the International social science journal
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa