IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-22344-2_11.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Policies for the Revitalisation of Human Resource Development

In: Africa’s Recovery in the 1990s

Author

Listed:
  • Giovanni Andrea Cornia
  • Jocelyn Jong

Abstract

Sub-Saharan societies have a long and rich tradition of indigenous education, traditional medicine and local approaches to social welfare. Upon achieving independence, however, they inherited modern, Western-style health and education structures which were weak and highly dualistic. These structures, which were concentrated in urban areas and dominated by expatriates, offered Africans only limited access. Experiences varied widely across countries. Enrolment data indicate that in 1960 the proportion of children of primary school age in school reached 31 per cent in the former French territories, 40 per cent in the former English territories and 50 per cent in the former Belgian territories (World Bank, 1988a). Gross primary school enrolment rates were as low as 6 per cent (Niger) and 7 per cent (Ethiopia and Somalia) but came close to or exceeded 50 per cent in Ghana and Uganda and surpassed 80 per cent in Congo (ibid.).

Suggested Citation

  • Giovanni Andrea Cornia & Jocelyn Jong, 1992. "Policies for the Revitalisation of Human Resource Development," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Giovanni Andrea Cornia & Rolph Hoeven & Thandika Mkandawire (ed.), Africa’s Recovery in the 1990s, chapter 10, pages 246-271, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-22344-2_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22344-2_11
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-22344-2_11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.