Business and Social Crisis in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781108445030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Antoinette Handley

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'Is business socially responsible in Africa? That is the fundamental question Handley (Univ. of Toronto) attempts to answer in this innovative and carefully researched study.' R. I. Rotberg, Choice

Spis treści

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.