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Title: Economic development under structural adjustment : evidence from selected West African countries
Creator: Ekpo, Akpan Hogan
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: This paper examines the performance of selected West African countries in terms of the development during ten years in which various stabilisation policies and IMF/World Bank structural adjustmentprogramme (SAP) were implemented. All the countries performed badly as measured by conventional indices. The paper concludes that the IMF/World Bank SAPs must be rejected and recommends, among other programmes, the implementation of the Economic Commission for Africa's adjustment package as a minimum...
Show moreThis paper examines the performance of selected West African countries in terms of the development during ten years in which various stabilisation policies and IMF/World Bank structural adjustmentprogramme (SAP) were implemented. All the countries performed badly as measured by conventional indices. The paper concludes that the IMF/World Bank SAPs must be rejected and recommends, among other programmes, the implementation of the Economic Commission for Africa's adjustment package as a minimum effort to correct the crisis of the last ten years.
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Title: Book review : Group work with the emotionally disabled
Creator: Davies, Angela (Of Family Counselling Unit)
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Baruch Levine (ed). Group work with the emotionally disabled. Lodon: Haworth Press, 1990

Title: Cover, publication data, content, advertisement
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Title: Book review : Agricultural extension for women farmers in Africa by Katrine A. Saito, C. Jean Weidemann
Creator: Chavarika, Joyce H.
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Katrine A. Saito, C. Jean Weidemann. Agricultural extension for women farmers in Africa. Washington DC: World Bank, 1990

Title: Book review : Strikes have followed me all my life by Emma Mashinini
Creator: Nduna, T. G.
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Emma Mashinini. Strikes have followed me all my life. London: Women's Press, 1989

Title: Scandinavian journal of development alternatives, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for the Scandinavian journal of development alternatives

Title: President Babangida's structural adjustment programme and inflation in Nigeria
Creator: Anyanwu, J. C. (John Chukwudi)
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: 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...
Show moreThe 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.
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Title: Developmental implications of early mortality factors in Nigeria
Creator: Ahonsi, Babatunde
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Past empirical findings about early mortality factors in Nigeria are examined within a proximate determinants framework. This shows that higher parental income and higher density of modem health facilities constitute the combination of factors most likely to bring about sustained reductions in early mortality levels. Evidence relating to various areas of the country do not, on the whole, show up maternal education as the primary early mortality reducing factor that it is acclaimed to be in...
Show morePast empirical findings about early mortality factors in Nigeria are examined within a proximate determinants framework. This shows that higher parental income and higher density of modem health facilities constitute the combination of factors most likely to bring about sustained reductions in early mortality levels. Evidence relating to various areas of the country do not, on the whole, show up maternal education as the primary early mortality reducing factor that it is acclaimed to be in other developing areas. The need to focus on the fundamental problem of raising general living standards rather than the pursuit of "short-cut" solutions to higher early mortality risks is implied.
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Title: New titles from Hans Zell Publishers--1991
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement about new titles in 1991 from Hans Zell Publishers

Title: Book review : Ageing in developing countries by Kent Tout
Creator: Hampson, Joe
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Ken Tout. Ageing in developing countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press for HelpAge International, 1989

Title: Book review : Literacy in development
Creator: Carmen, Raff, 1937-
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Katrine A. Saito, C. Jean Weidemann. Agricultural extension for women farmers in Africa. Washington DC: World Bank, 1990

Title: Book review : Prevention in community mental health centres
Creator: Henning, Margaret (Clinical psychologist)
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Robert E. Hess and John Morgan (eds.). Prevention in community mental health centres. New York: Haworth Press, 1990

Title: Social policy and administration
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for the journal Social policy and administration

Title: Book review : Adjustment with a human face
Creator: Zimunya, A.
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Richard Jolly, and Frances Stewart (eds.). Adjustment with a human face. London: Clarendon Press, 1987

Title: Advertisements, list of books received, notes for contributors
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Title: Editorial
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Title: Book review : People care in institutions by Yochanan Wozner
Creator: Henning, Margaret (Clinical psychologist)
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Yochanan Wozner. People care in institutions. New York: Haworth Press, 1990

Title: Health services and military Messianism in Nigeria (1983-1990)
Creator: Alubo, Sylvester Ogoh
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Since the 1983 military coup in Nigeria health services have been declared a major priority of the military regime. This health priority, along with professed commitments to popular welfare and to the resolution of economic problems, constitutes the declared raison d'etre for intervention. Rather than being a solution, the various reforms which are integral to the overall economic austerity programme have, however, escalated the crisis situation in health care. Aside from the increasing...
Show moreSince the 1983 military coup in Nigeria health services have been declared a major priority of the military regime. This health priority, along with professed commitments to popular welfare and to the resolution of economic problems, constitutes the declared raison d'etre for intervention. Rather than being a solution, the various reforms which are integral to the overall economic austerity programme have, however, escalated the crisis situation in health care. Aside from the increasing incidence of nutritional disorders directly traceable to the austerity measures, there is more exclusion of the majority from available medical services on the one hand, while privileges such as overseas treatment at public expense continue for top government officials on the other. These obvious contradictions between professed commitment and actual practice are explained against the wider dynamics of economic crisis and attendant adjustments.
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Title: Reflections on Zambia's demographic profile and population policy
Creator: Osei-Hwedie, Kwaku
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: This paper attempts to describe the nature of Zambia's demographic situation, which eventually led to the formulation of a national population policy; the policy instrument; and some of the measures necessary for the effective implementation of the policy.

Title: Social development issues
Date: 1992
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for the journal Social development issues

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