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Vicente Navarro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the political economy of the welfare state in developed capitalist countries
International Journal of Health Services, 1999Co-Authors: Vicente NavarroAbstract:The article analyzes the social, Economic, and political changes taking place in developed capitalist countries that are affecting their welfare states, in particular the changes in the family, in people's life cycles, in Economic and social structures, and, most importantly, in the political contexts. The author shows how these changes take place and how the ways in which various countries respond to them depend mainly on the correlation of forces (of which class forces continue to be of great importance) and their expression in the political space. The dominant theoretical frame (promoted by international agencies and many governments) assumes that all governments, regardless of their political coloration, are forced to follow the same policies because of the need to be competitive in the globalized economy, where international markets (whether financial or commercial) determine what governments can and must do. Questioning this Economic Determinism, the article recovers the importance of politics, putting politics at the center of the explanation of what is happening in the welfare states of the developed capitalist countries, including the neoliberal aggression against them.
Adewunmi James Falode - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Analyzing Nigerian Army - Boko Haram’s Conflict through the Prisms of Marx’s Theory of Economic Determinism
University of Tuzla, 2021Co-Authors: Moses Joseph Yakubu, Adewunmi James FalodeAbstract:This work analyzes the protracted conflict between the Nigerian authority and Boko Haram from the perspectives of Karl Marx’s theory of Economic Determinism. It explores the financial interests of corrupt officials as a plausible explanation for unsuccessful counter-terrorism. It also argues that the major factor responsible for the intractable nature of the conflict is the material benefit that the political elites derive from its prolongation. The authors use the theory of Economic Determinism to vividly show how the ruling oligarchs in Nigeria have thwarted every attempt to end the conflict. Using the qualitative research methodology, the work tends to illustrate how the desire for massive and unbridled wealth accumulation drove the political and military elites in Nigeria to hinder every effort made to resolve the conflict between Nigeria and Boko Haram. In other words, the work reveals the crucial links between wealth accumulation and the prolongation of the Boko Haram conflict in Nigeria
Falode, Adewunmi James - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ANALYSING NIGERIA-BOKO HARAM CONFLICT THROUGH THE PRISM OF MARX’S THEORY OF Economic Determinism
'Al-Jamiah Research Centre', 2021Co-Authors: Yakubu, Moses Joseph, Falode, Adewunmi JamesAbstract:Karya ini menganalisis konflik antara Nigeria dan Boko Haram dari perspektif teori Determinisme Ekonomi Karl Marx. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif berdasarkan data kepustakaan, penulis mencoba mencari ide yang dapat digunakan sebagai analisis resolusi konflik. Dia berpendapat bahwa faktor utama yang bertanggung jawab atas sifat konflik yang tidak dapat diselesaikan adalah manfaat material yang diperoleh elit politik dari perluasannya. Para penulis menggunakan teori Determinisme Ekonomi untuk menunjukkan secara rinci bagaimana oligarki yang berkuasa di Nigeria telah memperingatkan setiap upaya untuk menyelesaikan konflik. Karya tersebut menunjukkan contoh spesifik antara 2009 dan 2019 di mana oligarki yang berkuasa di Nigeria bertindak aktif untuk setiap upaya yang dilakukan untuk menyelesaikan konflik antara Nigeria dan Boko Haram karena keinginan mereka untuk tidak terbatas pada keuangan. Ini termasuk, namun tidak terbatas pada, skandal kontrak Shaldag 2010, skandal Dasukigate 2013, dan skandal pengadaan senjata 2014. Sebagai kesimpulan, tahun ini berpendapat bahwa Nigeria harus memasukkan ide dan konsep seperti transparansi, kontrol dan pemantauan, dan inklusivitas masyarakat ke dalam proses konfliknya. jika Anda berharap untuk mengalahkan kelompok Boko HaramThis work analyzes the conflict between Nigeria and Boko Haram from the perspective of Karl Marx's theory of Economic Determinism. By using a qualitative approach based on literature data, the author tries to find an idea that can be used as a conflict resolution analysis. He argues that the main factor responsible for the unresolvable nature of the conflict is the material benefits that political elites derive from its extension. The authors use the theory of Economic Determinism to show in detail how the ruling oligarchy in Nigeria has thwarted any attempt to resolve the conflict. The work shows a specific example between 2009 and 2019 where the ruling oligarchy in Nigeria acted actively for any efforts made to resolve the conflict between Nigeria and Boko Haram because their desire to have was not limited to finances. These include, but are not limited to, the 2010 Shaldag contract scandal, the 2013 Dasukigate scandal and the 2014 arms procurement scandal. In conclusion, the year argues that Nigeria should incorporate ideas and concepts such as transparency, control and monitoring, and community inclusiveness into its conflict process. if you hope to defeat the Boko Haram group
Samuel H Preston - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the changing relation between mortality and level of Economic development
Bulletin of The World Health Organization, 2003Co-Authors: Samuel H PrestonAbstract:The influence of Economic conditions on mortality has been recognized at least since biblical times. Empiricism of the most casual sort was sufficient to establish the link between food supply and mortality. Other components of living standards such as shelter and living space awaited a revolution in scientific method before their influence was finally acknowledged. But recent years have witnessed a movement away from Economic Determinism in mortality analysis. It is widely believed that mortality has become increasingly dissociated from Economic level because of a diffusion of medical and health technologies facilities and personnel that occurred in large part independently of Economic level yet this position has its critics who have gained a sympathetic audience! This paper utilizes readily available evidence in a new but obvious way to estimate the relative contribution of Economic factors to increases in life expectancy during the twentieth century. The evidence consists of cross-sectional relationships between national life expectancies and national income per head evaluated during three different decades of the twentieth century. These relationships are further used to assess the realism of certain Economic-demographic models and to re-examine what have become classical distinctions regarding sources of mortality declines in Western and non-Western areas. (excerpt)
J Hobcraft - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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discussion of paper explanations of the fertility crisis in modern societies a search for commonalities population studies 57 3 241 263 by john caldwell and thomas schindlmayr method theory and substance in understanding choices about becoming a pare
Population Studies-a Journal of Demography, 2004Co-Authors: J HobcraftAbstract:Caldwell and Schindlmayr provide a useful and fairly comprehensive review of recent work on the issues surrounding very low fertility. However they then fall into the trap of trying to find an elusive single ultimate cause. I shall argue that the conclusions in their final section are poorly argued flawed and much too dismissive of the literature they reviewed from the 1990s so that their ultimate common explanation is a minor variant on the earlier theories they had previously dismissed. In order to achieve a common explanation we are advised to dismiss all the careful review of evidence on why and when very low fertility levels (here defined as a total fertility of less than 1.5) were achieved since the fertility differential between Northwestern Europe and the rest of Europe is too small to be taken seriously and there is an extraordinary simultaneity in the contemporary world! Do they really believe that sustained total fertility of 1.2 compared with 2.0 is of no consequence? The explanation of low fertility we are suddenly told must be the creation of a world Economic system where children are of no Economic value to their parents. Quite how this conclusion of Economic Determinism is reached remains unclear but there seem to be echoes of an earlier Caldwell theory on intergenerational wealth flows. We seem to have returned to the broad and vague explanations and theories about the (first) demographic transition. This presumption is perhaps confirmed in the opening sentence of their final paragraph: The broadest explanation would echo the 1937 view of Kingsley Davis that ultimately reproduction of the species is not easily compatible with advanced industrial society. Did the baby boom never happen? Can it be ignored or dismissed in the need for a grand theory of everything? (excerpt)
