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Power and Need in Africa Basic Human Needs and Development Policies
Power and Need in Africa (1988) examines the mechanisms for giving the poor of Africa the means to develop their own future – a renaissance which has as its constituent elements environmental sustainability, women’s emancipation and social justice.
1. Background and Debate: Need as a Verb, Not a Noun 2. Health For All Means Power For All: Primary Health Care, Basic Services and the Legitimacy of the African State 3. Short-cuts Can Be Hazardous to Your Health: Campaign Approaches to Water Supply, Sanitation and Housing 4. A Child Survival and Development Revolution? UNICEF’s Answer to the ‘Head Wind of Recession’ 5. An African Food Dilemma? National Self-Reliance Versus Family Food Security 6. Rural Development: The Super Shopping List? 7. Basic Needs in Conflict: Technology to the Rescue? 8. Power and Need: Conclusions
Biography
Ben Wisner
