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The term ‘social’, like the term ‘political’, is indefinable. Depending on opinions, it may embrace a greater or lesser number of phenomena. Ultimately, everything is social or has a social aspect, which explains the imperialism of sociology. We shall confine ourselves to examining the extent to which social rights recognized by international law and/or constitutions have a real existence.
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See: The International Labour Review, studies published by ILO, in particular national monographs, studies of employment in towns, and more general studies such as the Report of the Director General at the Conference on Employment (1976), and the documents of the 1975 Seminar in Beirut on Employment in Arab States.
Pearson Report, 1969, p.90.
See M.P. Todaro: Internal Migration in Developing Countries, ILO, Geneva, 1976;
P. Bairoch: Urban Unemployment in Developing Countries, ILO, 1973;
Wouter van Ginneken: Rural and Urban Inequalities (notably in Tanzania and Tunisia), ILO, 1976.
H. Joshi et al.: Abidjan: urban development and employment in the Ivory Coast, 1976.
See the studies already cited by Wouter van Ginneken and P. Bairoch.
See the report already cited by the Director General of ILO, note 1 above.
For Sudan, see the very comprehensive report: Growth, Unemployment and Equity, ILO, 1976, 527 pp.; and on the same subject, the report concerning Kenya.
See, for example, J.W. Gregory: ‘Migration in Upper Volta’, (in T.M. Shaw and K.A. Heard, op.cit.; chap.4, pp.73–94).
See H. Plaschke: ‘La fuite des cerveaux’, L’Economiste du Tiers Monde, January/February 1977; and the document prepared by UNCTAD, TD/B/G/6/7, 13 October 1975.
See the feature in Le Monde, March 1976; and the studies published by the OECD; see also: ‘Les immigrés de l’Europe des Neuf, Le Monde, 23 January 1974; with regard to Great Britain, see the work by M. Chariot, A. Colin, 1972; numerous theses have touched upon the problems of immigrant workers in Africa and Europe; see the bibliography in the Annuaire du Tiers Monde.
See Dumont’s foreword to the work by A. Pravent and F. de Ravignan: Le nouvel ordre de la faim, Seuil, 1977; and his latest work: La Croissance… de la famine, Seuil, 1975.
Nous allons à la famine, Seuil, 1966.
Figures cited in Marchés tropicaux, October 1971; also the report presented to the UNICEF Conference: Children, Young People and Development Plans in West and Equatorial Africa, 1971.
See the works and articles cited in Part I, p.77; consult the ILO documents.
Encyclopédie Politique et Constitutionnelle, Série Afrique.
See further discussion of this in: Les systèmes politiques africains, 1st edn., vol.II.
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Gonidec, P.F. (1981). Social Policies. In: African Politics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8902-3_11
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