ECONOMIC LlBERALIZATION AND WOMEN'S EDUCATION: PROSPECTS FOR POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
Abstract
ABSTRACT. The post-apartheid South African economy is now responding, as elsewhere in Africa, to the fiscal/monetary exigencies of Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) as stipulated by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A cardinal principle of SAPs is the reduction of expenditure on public education and other areas of social development. With that financial reality in place now, this paper examines women's education and related issues in the new South Africa. The basic proposition in this regard is that with SAPs now applying a downward pressure on educational expansion and affordability, women's education in general, and black women's in particular, will suffer in the long-run. RÉSUMÉ. Comme celle d'autres pays d'Afrique, l'économie de l'Afrique du Sud se conforme depuis l'abolition de l'apartheid aux exigences fiscales et monétaires des programmes d'ajustement structurel (PAS) de la Banque mondiale et du Fonds monétaire international (FMI). L'un des principes fondamentaux sur lesquels reposent les PAS est la réduction des dépenses consacrées à l'enseignement public et à d'autres programmes de développement social. À la lumière de ces nouvelles réalités financières, l'auteur analyse la question de l'éducation des femmes et certains problèmes qui s'y rattachent dans la nouvelle Afrique du Sud. Il soutient à cet égard que les PAS réduisent l'accès à l'éducation et nuisent à son développement et qu'avec le temps, ce sont les femmes et surtout les femmes noires qui en souffriront.Downloads
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1998-01-01
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Abdi, A. A. (1998). ECONOMIC LlBERALIZATION AND WOMEN’S EDUCATION: PROSPECTS FOR POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 33(001). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/8402
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