West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McLean, Mora L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
• Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora,
• Subjects: Ethnology > Africa.; Culture.; Africa > Politics and government.; Cultural policy.; Family policy.; Africa > Economic conditions.; Political planning.; African Culture.; African Politics.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.; African Economics.; Public Policy.
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This open access edited collection explores obstacles that impede, and potential pathways toward improving, the material and psychological well-being of youth in and from West Africa. Contributors range from researchers to practitioners, offering a transatlantic, transcontinental set of perspectives on the mounting evidence that, whether they reside in poor "underdeveloped" or wealthier (OECD) countries, young people who live in poverty and are African-born or of African descent are disproportionately burdened by the global phenomenon of increasing income inequality. Mora McLean is Co-Adjutant in the Office of the Chancellor and Office of Globally Engaged Experiential Learning at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.