Social Policy in Sub-Saharan African Context

ROSEMARY ATIENO Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, KenyaPATRICK BOND Director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaCHACHAGE SEITHY L. CHACHAGE Professor of Sociology, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Member of the Executive Committee of CODESRIAABDUL-GANIYU GARBA Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Ahmadu Bello University, NigeriaFRED T. HENDRICKS Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Rhodes University, South AfricaOKA OBONO Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Fellow of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Temporary Advisor to the World Health Organization and the African Programme on Onchocerciasis Control; National Consultant to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)ALFRED OUMA SHEM Analyst at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and AnalysisBOLA UDEGBE Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

'Reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future, and examines a range of policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare.' - International Social Security Review

• List of Tables List of Figures Foreword Preface List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on Contributors Social Policy and the Quest for Inclusive Development: Introduction; J.Adésínà Ruling Ideas and Social Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Assessment of Nationalist, Keynesian and Neoliberal Paradigms; A.G.Garba Social Policy and Development in East Africa: The Case of Education and Labour Market Policies; C.S.L.Chachage Education, Employment and Development in Southern Africa: The Role of Social Policy in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe; F.T.Hendricks Social Policy and the Challenge of Development in Nigeria and Ghana: The Cases of Education and Labour Market Policies; B.Udegbe The Role of Social Policy in Development: Health, Water and Sanitation in East Africa; R.Atieno & A.Ouma Shem The Socio-Political Structure of Accumulation and Social Policy in Southern Africa; P.Bond Social Policy in the Development Context: Water, Health and Sanitation in Ghana and Nigeria; O.Obono Index