AfricaBib 
bibliographic database
| Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
 Book chapter |
 Leiden University catalogue |
 WorldCat |
| Title: | Globalization and human insecurity in Africa |
| Author: | Salih, M.A. Mohamed |
| Book title: | Globalization, democracy and development in Africa: challenges and prospects |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Pages: | 61-81 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | basic needs global economy economic policy national security |
| Abstract: | Neoliberal globalization, based on the doctrine that the global economy, regardless of social or political consequences, will be most efficient in the long term if dominated by free market forces, diminishes the autonomy of weak States, such as those in Africa, and places them under sustained pressure to perform according to the dictates and economic conditionality packages issued by global financial institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF. The failure of the structural adjustment programmes (SAP) launched in Africa in the 1980s, and the socioeconomic and political upheavals that followed, are direct consequences of the introduction of a neoliberal globalization paradigm imposed by the World Bank and the IMF. As the African case shows, neoliberal globalization has become a major source of human insecurity. It has undermined people's safety from chronic threats such as hunger, disease and repression, and their protection from sudden disruptions in the pattern of daily life. Besides military insurgency and the emergence of warlords, African resistance has also manifested itself through the creation of community-based organizations and NGOs, and the reinvention of African traditional institutions. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
