Socio-economic development

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Improving both the social and the economic.

Socio-economic development is encouraged as the best approach to address social problems such as poverty in Africa. Socio-economic development can be taught as a subject or embedded in subjects, fieldwork and research.  It focuses on building income, infrastructure and savings in a sustainable and preventive and long term-planned manner. The opposite is welfarism, which focuses on grants, food relief, aid and social assistance in a remedial, reactive or curative manner.

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