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Business and Social Crisis in Africa

English · Hardback

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1. Doing business like a state: the response to social crisis; Part I. Business, HIV/AIDS and the Provision of Public Health: 2. Not our business: HIV/AIDS in Kenya and Uganda; 3. Healthy responses: HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Botswana; Part II. Business, Political Crisis and the Provision of Broader Social Stability: 4. The business of business is politics: political and electoral violence in South Africa and Kenya; 5. Business interests and the broader social good in the developing world.

About the author

Antoinette Handley is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto where her research focuses on state-business relations and the nature of the capitalist class in Africa. She has been awarded Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships, and the World Politics Research Fellowship at Princeton University, New Jersey. She is the author of Business and the State in Africa: Economic Policy Making in the Neo-Liberal Era (Cambridge, 2008).

Summary

Based on fieldwork in Kenya, Uganda, Botswana and South Africa, this study focuses on the private sector response to the AIDS epidemic and to political violence, revealing how African businesses can be key responders to wider social and political crises, often responding well in advance of the state.

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