In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2019, vol. 1, no. 4, p. Article: 1.4
For more than a decade scholars mostly from economy and development studies have described the rise of a newly emerging ‘middle class’ in the Global South including Africa. This has led to a ‘middle class narrative’ with the ‘middle class’ as the backbone of economic and democratic development. Especially with regard to the stability of the position of the people in the ‘middle’,...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2019, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article: 1.1
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2016, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article: 1.1
The remarkable dynamism of government welfare provision in Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean is embedded in a broader context. As a legacy of the colonial past, social protection for old age and health care was generally the privilege of the rather small group of formal sector workers. French colonialism emphasized an active role of the state in social protection and had a quite...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM005.
UNESCO Community Multimedia Centres are a specific model of public access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). These venues are conceived to address the information needs of underserved and marginalised communities in emerging and developing countries. They are composed of a community radio station, which broadcasts in local languages and is managed by local people, along with...
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