POVERTY, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT -- POVERTY, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION I: POVERTY AND SOCIOECONOMICS -- Chapter 1: AN ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS AND FOOD SECURITY IN TWO SELECTED COUNTRIES IN AFRICA -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINITIONS -- STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS -- MALAWI'S STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM -- TANZANIA'S (FORMERLY TANGANYIKA) STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: POVERTY IN AFRICA: AN INHERITED, CREATED AND SUPERIMPOSED EPIDEMIC -- INTRODUCTION -- COLORBAR -- ARCHAIC NAMES -- AFRICA BEFORE COLONIALISM -- SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA -- CREATED PATHOLOGIES AND SUPERIMPOSED BIASES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: DEBT BURDEN AND POVERTY IN AFRICA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE GENESIS OF THE DEBT CRISIS -- IMF/WORLD BANK POVERTY POLICY INITIATIVES AS NEW FORM OF SLAVERY IN AFRICA -- DEBT RELIEF AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION -- OBSERVATION -- SUGGESTIONS FOR THE WAY FORWARD -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: PERPETUATORS OR ALLEVIATORS? THE POLITICS OF GLOBALIZATION AND POVERTY IN AFRICA -- INTRODUCTION -- TERMS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE -- SOURCES OF INEQUALITIES -- IMPACT -- MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: GLOBALIZATION OF MARKET ECONOMY: KENYA'S EXPERIENCE OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS AND POLITICAL DEMOCRATIZATION -- INTRODUCTION -- QUESTION ON SOVEREIGNTY AND MULTINATIONAL INSTITUTION -- DEMOCRATIZATION OF AFRICAN STATES -- POLITICS OF GLOBALIZATION IN KENYA -- THE ESSENCE OF DEMOCRATIZATION AND POLITICAL CONDITIONALITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: ILLEGAL ORGAN TRADE: CAPITALIZING ON LIFE AND DEATH -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- THE ECONOMIC,MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL SLAVERY PERPETUATED FROM KIDNEY SALES.

MORALITY AND REGULATION OF ORGAN TRADE -- PROHIBITION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7: EMPOWERING POOR COMMUNITIES FOR CHANGE: THE HISTORY AND THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN POVERTY REDUCTION IN GHANA -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- DEFINING CIVIL SOCIETY -- HISTORY OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN GHANA: PRE-INDEPENDENCE PERIOD -- NKRUMAH'S REGIME AND CIVIL SOCIETY (1951- 1966) -- BUSIA'S REGIME AND CIVIL SOCIETY (1966-1972) -- THE ACHEAMPONG REGIME AND CIVIL SOCIETY (1972 - 1978) -- THE RAWLINGS REGIMES AND CIVIL SOCIETY (1981- 2000) -- KUFOUR'S GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY (2000 TO 2008) -- THE POLITICS OF "GOOD GOVERNANCE" -- THE PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN GHANA -- PROSPECTS -- CHALLENGES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8: ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: A STIMULUS FOR INEQUITIES AND INJUSTICE IN THE LIVES OF THE POWERLESS IN THAILAND -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBALIZATION AND THAILAND: INEQUALITY ON THE MACROLEVEL -- GLOBALIZATION AND THE THAI PEOPLE: INEQUALITY ON THE MICROLEVEL -- WAGE INEQUALITY: UNAVOIDABLE FATE FOR THAI WAGE WORKERS -- THAI WOMEN AND GLOBAL FEMINIZATION -- THAI YOUTH LABOR: UNVERIFIED LABOR FORCE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9: HIDDEN POVERTY IN JAPAN: CURRENT SITUATION AND PROBLEM OF HOMELESSNESS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHANGES IN THE JAPANESE ECONOMY IN THE POSTWAR ERAMany researchers -- YOSEBA (DAY-LABOR) SYSTEM IN JAPAN -- CURRENT HOMELESSNESS SITUATION IN JAPAN -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10: MAKING POVERTY INVISIBLE: ACASE STUDY OF STAREHE BOYS CENTRE AND SCHOOL, KENYA -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBAL TRENDS OF POVERTY AND HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT -- BACKGROUND OF STAREHE BOYS CENTRE AND SCHOOL -- STAREHE'S EARLY FUNDING APPROACHES -- EFFORTS TO CREATE SECURE EDUCATIONAL FUNDING -- INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER -- LOCAL CHAPTER -- OTHER EFFORTS TO SUPPLEMENT THE ENDOWMENT FUND.

SUSTAINABILITY AND FUNDING CAVEATS -- LESSONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SECTION II: POVERTY AND GENDER -- Chapter 11: RELATIONAL POVERTY: ENRICHMENT THROUGH CARE THEORY -- INTRODUCTION -- COMMONSENSE CONCEPTIONS OF CARING -- CARE AND GENDER -- CARE THEORY -- COMMUNICATION SKILLS -- THE ROLE OF SCHOOL AND TEACHER -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12: GENDER, POVERTY, AND FEMALE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- INTRODUCTION -- GENDER AND POVERTY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- GENDER AND EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN GENDER EDUCATION AND POVERTY -- SUGGESTIONS FOR A WAY FORWARD -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13: ONE GIRL FOR ONE TV: ISSUES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL SLAVERY IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SEX TRADE -- SEX TRADE AND HIV/AIDS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14: THE KAREN REFUGEE WOMEN: THEIR SURVIVAL STORIES -- INTRODUCTION -- BURMESE WOMEN'S CONDITION -- THE KAREN WOMEN IN REFUGEE CAMPS -- THE ROLE OF UNHCR AND NGOS IN REFUGEE CAMPS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15: WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- INTRODUCTION -- CHILE -- SAMOA -- GHANA -- PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- INDIA -- RUSSIA -- NICARAGUA -- JAMAICA -- PAKISTAN -- OTHER SUCCESS STORIES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16: THE ROLE OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE DE-FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY -- INTRODUCTION -- WOMEN AND POVERTY -- NGOS AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT -- SUSTAINABILITY OF IMPLEMENTED PROJECTS -- ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THE SUCCESS OF NGOS -- INTERNATIONAL DONORS -- THE NEED FOR COOPERATION -- COLLABORATION EFFORTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 17: POVERTY AND THE PHENOMENON OF WOMEN AS HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS POST-1994 RWANDAN GENOCIDE -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND TO THE GENOCIDE -- THE SITUATION OF WOMEN -- WOMEN IN POST-GENOCIDE RWANDA.

THE CHALLENGES OF WOMEN-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS IN RWANDA -- EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS: PROCESS THESIS -- POLICY THESIS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 18: FERTILITY TRANSITION IN GHANA: WOMEN'S EDUCATION VERSUS POVERTY REDUCTION -- INTRODUCTION -- ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS -- DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION -- WOMEN'S AUTONOMY -- FERTILITY TREND IN GHANA -- EDUCATION -- POVERTY REDUCTION -- RESULTS OF STATISTICAL ANALYSES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 19: GLOBALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING GLOBALIZATION -- GLOBALIZATION: THREAT OR OPPORTUNITY? -- EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION ON WOMEN -- STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS AND WOMEN -- GLOBALIZATION, CAPITALISM, AND WOMEN -- GLOBALIZATION AND WOMEN: ANY REWARDS? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARIES OF CHAPTERS -- 1: AN ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS ANDFOOD SECURITY IN TWO SELECTED COUNTRIES IN AFRICA -- 2: POVERTY IN AFRICA: AN INHERITED, CREATED AND SUPERIMPOSED EPIDEMIC -- 3: DEBT BURDEN AND POVERTY IN AFRICA -- 4: PERPETUATORS OR ALLEVIATORS? THE POLITICS OF GLOBALIZATION AND POVERTY IN AFRICA -- 5: GLOBALIZATION OF MARKET ECONOMY: KENYA'S EXPERIENCE OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS AND POLITICAL DEMOCRATIZATION -- 6: ILLEGAL ORGAN TRADE: CAPITALIZING ON LIFE AND DEATH -- 7: EMPOWERING POOR COMMUNITIES FOR CHANGE: THE HISTORY AND THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN POVERTY REDUCTION IN GHANA -- 8: ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: A STIMULUS FOR INEQUITIES AND INJUSTICE IN THE LIVES OF THE POWERLESS IN THAILAND -- 9: HIDDEN POVERTY IN JAPAN: CURRENT SITUATION AND PROBLEM OF HOMELESSNESS -- 10: MAKING POVERTY INVISIBLE: A CASE STUDY OF STAREHE BOYS CENTRE AND SCHOOL, KENYA -- 11: RELATIONAL POVERTY: ENRICHMENT THROUGH CARE THEORY -- 12: GENDER, POVERTY, AND FEMALE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.

13: ONE GIRL FOR ONE TV: ISSUES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL SLAVERY IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION -- 14: THE KAREN REFUGEE WOMEN: THEIR SURVIVAL STORIES -- 15: WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- 16: THE ROLE OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE DE-FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY -- 17: POVERTY AND THE PHENOMENON OF WOMEN AS HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS POST-1994 RWANDAN GENOCIDE -- 18: FERTILITY TRANSITION IN GHANA: WOMEN'S EDUCATION VERSUS POVERTY REDUCTION -- 19GLOBALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON WOMENIN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- Blank Page.