Globalization and social policy in Africa
By: edited by Tade Akin Aina, Chachage Seithy L. Chachage & Elisabeth Annan-Yao.
Contributors: Aina, Tade Akin.; Chachage, C. S. L., 1955-; Annan-Yao, Elisabeth.; Codesria.
Series: Codesria book series
Publisher: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa; Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective; Codesria
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Dakar, Senegal; Oxford, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Globalization -- Social aspects.; Africa -- Social policy.; Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960-; Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
Description: This collection of essays from seventeen authors from all parts of Africa, and a variety of social science disciplines, examines different areas of contact between globalisation and the lives of ordinary people in Africa. Drawing for the most part on empirical and historical studies, the contributors elucidate how ordinary African understand, confront and relate to the complex and competing forces of globalisation. They examine how contemporary and historical dynamics have shaped the ways in which globalisation is interacting with, and defining oft-neglected areas of social policy. The authors engage with, and question current, dominant orthodoxies, showing how prevailing economic thinking, particularly that of the dominant multilateral institutions, has undermined a sense of the importance of social policies relevant to a mode of economic development attuned to social transformation in Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.