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Social security --- 36 <1-773> --- 36 <1-773> Maatschappelijk werk--Gebieden in ontwikkeling. Ontwikkelingslanden --- Maatschappelijk werk--Gebieden in ontwikkeling. Ontwikkelingslanden --- Insurance, Social --- Insurance, State and compulsory --- Social insurance --- Insurance --- Income maintenance programs --- Sociology of social welfare --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Swaziland

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When discussing development issues in Africa, it is not sufficient to simply stress the ubiquity of failure, malnutrition, disease, predatory states and war; one also has to recognize that important aspects in the lives of millions of ordinary people have been transformed over the last five decades. The contributions in this book are rooted in extensive empirical research at local, regional and/or national level in different African countries (Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa and Uganda), while some take a pan-African view. All, however, offer insight from different analytical perspectives into the heterogeneity of poverty and development processes in Sub-Saharan Africa and confront the ideas, concepts and assumptions that lie behind pro-poor policies. The volume also encourages policy makers to choose realistic policy prescriptions in an attempt to move people out of poverty.

Third World: economic development problems --- Africa --- #SBIB:327.4H10 --- #SBIB:327.4H11 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Ontwikkelingsproblematiek: algemeen --- Ontwikkelingsproblematiek: hongerprobleem, voedselsituatie --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions -- 1960-. --- Economic assistance, Domestic -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. --- Poverty -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. --- Rural development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. --- Case studies --- Development planning --- Development policy --- Economic conditions --- Economic development --- Poverty alleviation --- Africa. --- Chad --- Ethiopia. --- Kenya --- Lesotho --- South Africa. --- Uganda. --- Case studies. --- Development planning. --- Development policy. --- Economic conditions. --- Economic development. --- Poverty alleviation. --- Chad. --- Kenya. --- Lesotho. --- Poverty --- Community development. --- Government policy --- Community development --- Regional development --- Destitution --- Citizen participation --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Rural development --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Anti-poverty programs --- Government economic assistance --- Economic policy --- National service --- Grants-in-aid

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Africa abounds with examples of material and immaterial innovations that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere yet came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly transformed in Africa. The authors in this volume explore how external innovations (products, technologies, services, institutions and processes) have been appropriated in African societies in order to be acceptable and relevant to local conditions, expectations and demands. Written from different disciplinary perspectives, the chapters demonstrate the depth and richness of innovation in Africa with, in some cases, surprising outcomes. The case studies presented are on subjects as diverse as the wine industry, trading stores, land reforms, washing powder, M-Pesa, cassava, weddings, international borders, guest houses, urban water supply, car technology, shallow wells, and railways and blacksmithing.

Economic production --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Business planning. --- Entrepreneurship. --- New business enterprises. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Technological innovations --- Inventions --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Research, Industrial --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Technology transfer --- Information technology --- Social aspects --- Africa --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- Prior art (Patent law) --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Technology --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Eastern Hemisphere --- 2000 - 2099