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- It may appear little more than commonplace to assert the central significance of the cultural and epistemological contexts of societies in shaping the contours and even the very existence of social research within those societies. It is argued in this article, however, that the force of this reality is too frequently ignored or deflected by those who attempt to fashion and institutionalise culturally pertinent social research strategies and programmes in the Third World. In this paper we attempt a broad brush illustration of this argument through a discussion of social research in the Arab world. We sketch aspects of both Western research and Arab society which accentuate for us the inevitable problematics of social research in the Arab world. Grounded on the assumption that social research in these societies can ignore the impacts of neither Western paradigms nor the scholarly and social implications of a contemporary Muslim worldview, we offer tentative suggestions for ways in which culturally appropriate, yet socially challenging research can become indigenous within the Arab world. While the application of our specific argument is limited at best to the Arab societies of the Middle East, parallel tasks need to be undertaken elsewhere in Africa and the developing world. Indeed, indigenisation is everyone's task.
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The World Bank, quoted in Mhishi (1998) estimated urban poverty in Zimbabwe in 1990/91 to be 12%. The 1995 Poverty Assessment Study found that urban poverty was now 39%. What is evident from these statistics is that urban poverty is increasing at unprecedented levels. What is also evident from studies that have been carried out is that those caught up in urban poverty resort to the informal sector as a survival strategy. Of concern also is the likelihood of more people living in cities than in rural areas in the next millennium. The past eight years of "structural adjustment without growth" unleashed massive retrenchments in both the public and private sector, and as we embark on the second phase of the reform programme, there are indications that the formal sector will shrink even further. It is therefore evident that the only sector with potential to create more jobs is the informal sector. It is against this background of increasing urban poverty, urbanisation and declining formal employment opportunities that his paper puts forward some suggestions for promoting the growth of the informal sector.
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- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The paper examines the underlying conceptual and theoretical logic of the policy of privatisation in the area of social welfare services, and its unfolding empirical manifestations in Africa, with a Nigerian example. The hegemony of the neoliberal economic orthodoxy in the global arena has evoked market principles and policies, including the privatisation policy, as the dominant means of economic management and service provision and delivery. The privatisation policy is believed to make for efficiency, rationality, cost management and optimal resource allocation in the provision of public goods. The paper argues that the theoretical basis of the policy with respect to the provision of social welfare services is tenuous and rests basically on a foundation of sand. The privatisation policy, like the market policy of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs), isa fundamentalist economic project, rather than a sanguine economic policy, which can promote societal welfare. It seeks to reconstruct the object, nature and basis of social welfare services, from a social and public orientation, to a private one, which has implications for the issues of allocative efficiency, social and class inequities, access to the provision of those services and societal development The net-benefit of the policy is less to society and may be dysfunctional to it, but is more to the interest of capital.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Levels of orphanhood and patterns of different forms of orphanhood (namely, double, paternal and maternal) will change as an HIV epidemic progresses. The implications of different forms of orphanhood for children's development will also change as the cumulative impact of a period of sustained high morbidity and mortality takes its toll on the adult population. In this article we describe patterns of orphanhood and orphans' educational experience in populations in eastern Zimbabwe subject to a major HIV epidemic which is maturing into its endemic phase. Levels of orphanhood have grown recently but rates of maternal and double orphanhood, in particular, are likely to continue to increase for several years to come. Orphans are found disproportionately in rural, female-, elderly- and adolescent-headed households. Each of these is a risk factor for more extreme poverty. The over-representation in rural areas could reflect urban-rural migration around the time of death of the parent due to loss of income and the high cost of living in towns. Over-representation in female-, elderly- and adolescentheaded households reflects the predisposition of men to seek employment in towns, estates and mines; the higher level of paternal orphanhood; the reluctance of second wives to take responsibility for their predecessors' children and stress in the extended family system. The death of the mother was found to fuive a strong detrimental effect on a child's chances of completing primary school education the strength of effect increasing with time since maternal death. The death of the father had no detrimental effect, despite the fact that paternal orphans were typically found in the poorest households.
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- 2003-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This paper briefly examines the context of rural growth points in Zimbabwe since Independence (1980). It examines prospects for rural industrial and commercial growth in the light of a highly centralised industrial and commercial base, dominated by monopolistic and oligopolistic firms. A number of possible small scale industry opportunities are identified, which lead to an assessment of the current role of central and local government initiatives
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for Transaction Publishers
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Benyamin Chetkow-Yanoov. Social work practice. New York: Haworth Press, 1992
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for the Journal of social development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 2002-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for the journal Social development issues
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa