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| Title: | Privatisation Policy and the Delivery of Social Welfare Services in Africa: A Nigerian Example |
| Author: | Adejumobi, Said |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Social Development in Africa (ISSN 1012-1080) |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 87-108 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs., ills. |
| Geographic terms: | Nigeria West Africa |
| Subjects: | social policy social welfare privatization Health and Nutrition Development and Technology Economics and Trade Economics, Commerce economic policy |
| Abstract: | In African countries, the State has been a major actor in the provision of social welfare services. Increasingly, however, there are calls to transfer the provision of social welfare services to the private sector in the interests of efficiency and economic rationality. The author analyses the logic and essence of privatization in the social sector and underscores its limitations and prospects. He interrogates both the economic rationale of privatization and its sociopolitical implications. He argues that although privatization tends to have strong economic persuasion in terms of its propensity to yield high financial returns, profit margins and efficiency rate, its social and political value, particularly in the area of social welfare services, is often questionable and dysfunctional, which may invariably create a backlash. The experience of Nigeria, where especially since the mid-1990s there has been a concerted attempt by the State to subject the delivery of social welfare services to the principle of marketization, serves as case study. Bibliogr., sum. |
