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Children and development: Pursuing policy priority in the new South Africa

✍ Scribed by Lindiwe Mokate; Richard Morgan

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
503 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
0954-1748

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✦ Synopsis

The democratic transformation of South Africa in the early 1990s has presented a new generation of South African policymakers with both the opportunity and the challenge of incorporating children's needs and rights into a central position in national development strategies. This paper reviews the rationale, priorities and mechanisms which are being developed in South Africa to pursue these goals.

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