| ISSN 1012-1080 JOURNAL OF SO€IAL DEVELOPMENT INAFRlffl Editorial SAP and Inflation in Nigeria John C Anyanwu Economic Development under Structual Adjustment Akpan 11 Ekpo Health Services and Military Messianism 5 OgohAlubo Early Mortality Factors Babatunde Ahonsi Zambia's Demographic Profile and Population Policy Kwaku and Bertha Osei llwedie Book Reviews Volume 7 No 1 1992 JOURNAL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA School of Social Work P/Bag 66022 Kopje Harare, Zimbabwe The journal publishes critical analyses of social development issues as they affect the poor and marginalised in society. It deals with concerns especially but not exclusively relevant to Southern Africa, and is addressed to development practitioners, social workers, planners and policy makers, academics in a variety of fields such as economics, geography, politics, sociology, psychology, social administration, and to other concerned individuals. 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Advertising rates US25 per 1/2 pg and US$50 per A5 pg, exchange advertising by arrangement Journal of Social Development in Africa VoI7Noll992 Editorial 3 Articles President Babangida's Structural Adjustment Programme 5 and Inflation in Nigeria JohnC Anyanwu Economic Development Under Structural Adjustment: 25 Evidence from Selected West African Countries AkpanHEkpo Health Services and Military Messianism in Nigeria (1983-1990) 45 SOgohAlubo Developmental Implications of Early Mortality Factors in Nigeria 67 Babatunde A Ahonsi Reflections on Zambia's Demographic Profile and Population 87 Policy Kwaku Osei-Hwedie and Bertha Osei-Hwedie Book Reviews 99 Adjustment with a Human Face: Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Richard Jolly and Francis Stewart (eds); Agricultural Extension for Women Farmers in Africa, Katrine A Saito and Jean C Weidemann; Literacy in Development People, Language, Power, Brian V Street (ed); Ageing in Developing Countries, Ken Tout, Group Work with the Emotionally Disabled, Baruch Levine (ed); People Care in Institutions: a Conceptual Schema and Its Application, Yochanan Wozner; Prevention in Community Mental Health Centres, Hess Robert E and Morgan John (eds); Social Representations of Intelligence, Gabriel Mugney and Felice Carugati; Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life. 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