ABSTRACT
Gender and development policies have emerged in Africa in the context of globalisation processes which have led to increased income differentiation, impoverishment of the majority and growing gender and class inequities. Policies associated with downsizing, privatisation and liberalisation have benefited large-scale business rather than small-scale, and foreign companies more than local enterprise. State schools and hospitals have been run down, factories closed and a large number of workers thrown out of employment, both women and men. African governments lack the economic power – and will? – needed to protect the interests of domestic business and producers.
