Africa: Exhaustion And Exclusion In The African Village: The Non-State Social Welfare Of ...

Africa: Exhaustion And Exclusion In The African Village: The Non-State Social Welfare Of Informal Reciprocity In Rural Ghana And Cote d’Ivoire Lauren M. MacLean, 2011   This paper examines the consequences for equity of different patterns of non-state social welfare provision, specifically the informal institutions of reciprocity among families, friends, and village neighbors in rural West Africa. Based on over 18 months of fieldwork in similar regions on either side of the Ghana-Cote...

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