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In the last decade there has been a significant escalation in the number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in various parts of the world, more particularly, in Sub- Saharan Africa. The author strongly asserts that early childhood education is the main vehicle to address the concerns of OVC in order for them to develop skills and human capital as future adults in order to improve the outcomes for governance and economic development in Africa. He argues on the basis of inclusion that a...
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West African farmers are among those most likely to suffer from climate change, partly due to the agro-climatic characteristics of the regional system and to their limited scope for coping with shocks. Climate change adaptation has thus been touted as a necessary path for rural poverty reduction and development in the region. Yet, do farm households who implemented climate change adaptation earn higher income compare to those who did not? We attempt to answer this question in the context of...
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Policies and laws emphasizing criminal justice have dominated domestic violence interventions, in the United States and globally, for decades. The feminist advocacy promoting the criminal justice approach is referred to by critics as “carceral feminism.” Western influence in the international human rights movement has spurred the spread of carceral feminism around the world, seeing it as the key means for addressing violence against women. However, the carceral approach is now criticized for...
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The focus of this article is immigrant women's perceptions of social change, and how they respond to it.In the article, social change refers to the fact that more people than ever before are engaged in different activities that lead to alterations in the norms and behavioural patterns of people as individuals or as a group in society.The study analysed social change via the perceptions of individuals-immigrant Nigerian women in South African higher education.In line with phenomenological...
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This paper analyzes the complex effects and risks of social protection programmes in Ghana and Kenya on poor people’s human wellbeing, voice and empowerment and interactions with the social protection regulatory framework and policy instruments. For this purpose, it adopts a comprehensive Inclusive Development framework to systematically explore the complex effects of cash transfers and health insurance at the individual, household and community level. The findings highlight the positive...
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Abstract The attributes and characteristics which are elicited during performances of music artists can, by establishing interdisciplinary connections between the arts and education, serve as direction indicators for solutions to challenging situations that teachers encounter in their classrooms. While appreciating the artistry and performance of André Rieu and his orchestra, 32 teachers from a secondary school in Bloemfontein, South Africa, identified six positive themes of his artistry and...
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In the wake of historical and political events, stakeholder pressure can trigger shareholders to divest from politically incorrect markets with the goal of accomplishing socio-political change. As a comparative study, this paper reviews political divestiture to provide a theoretical framework for divestiture in the age of global warming. Six studies of political divestiture from Apartheid South Africa were meta-synthesized to find a pattern of stakeholder pressure, political divestiture and...
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This publication brings together a set of IMF papers that prepared as backgrounds for the various sessions of the conference and will help put into broader dissemination channels the results of this important conference. An official IMF publication is well disseminated into academic and institutional libraries and book channels. The IMF metadata will also make the conference papers more discoverable online.