Author: Pundy Pillay
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: Pundy Pillay
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 73

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Author: Jill Nattrass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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This edition has been completely updated with new chapters on trade unions in South Africa, recent legislation affecting economic growth, the role of the State via the tricameral system, the development of the Black States, and other topics.

Author: Firoz Khan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hong Kong (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Claude Auroi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135196214
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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First Published in 1992. Bringing together papers from analysts from every continent, edited by Claude Auroi, this collection offers insight into the state's role and the challenges in researching its development. The authors recognise the concerns among young nations focused on which type of state system would lead to an organised nation while acknowledging the two major symbols of discussion in the Western type of state and the Marxist state. They argue points of commonality and thus analyse the qualifying adjective of 'state' to suggest patterns and future discernments.

Author: Etienne Louis Nel
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412827652
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Over the last two decades the concept and practice of Local Economic Development (LED) has gained widespread acceptance around the world as a locally-based response to the challenges posed by globalization, devolution, local-level opportunities, and economic crises. Support for local economic development is now firmly on the agenda of many national governments and key international agencies. This volume examines the debates about Local Economic Development and examines some of the unfolding experiences of LED in the developing world. The focus is upon the region of southern Africa, and more especially upon post-apartheid South Africa. LED emerged in South Africa as one of the more significant post-apartheid development options being pursued by empowered localities with the overt encouragement of national government. Elsewhere in the developing world, much interest surrounds the experience of LED in post-apartheid South Africa, which is seen as a laboratory for experimentation, innovation, and learning. The seventeen chapters in this book examine the range of LED interventions that have been the basis for experimentation in the last decade, including both pro-market as well as pro-poor interventions. Key themes include debates about the most appropriate policy directions for LED, its contribution towards sustainable development, the role of social capital, cluster support, public procurement, eco-development, good governance and tourism-led LED. The book also contains a series of detailed case studies on the implementation of LED in South Africa and the wider region of southern Africa, including analyses of LED undertaken at a variety of scales from the provincial, metropolitan, and small-town level. Until now, most research on local economic development has focused on the developed world. This volume breaks new ground in applying LED policy and practices to problems specific to the developing world. It will be of interest to scholars of development studies, urban and regional planning, human geography, and urban studies. "This compelling and comprehensive book provides a look at the innovative (including pro-poor) local economic development strategies being used in South Africa. The contributors [to Local Economic Development in the Changing World: The Experience of Southern Africa] are among the very best scholars in the field." -Gary Gaile, University of Colorado "Etienne Nel and Christian Rogerson have produced an excellent book on local economic development in South Africa. The chapters in this timely volume contain many valuable lessons for both the developing and the developed world. Of particular importance is the policy focus of Nel and Rogerson on investing in and empowering low-income workers, entrepreneurs, families, and neighborhoods. Because of the special emphasis on inclusive economic development strategies, this book is a very useful guide to what the Prague Institute calls "Treating People and Communities as Assets." -Dr. Marc A. Weiss, Chairman and CEO, Prague Institute for Global Urban Development Etienne Nel is associate professor in the Department of Geography of Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Christian M. Rogerson is professor of human geography, School of Geography, Archaeology, and Environmental Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Author: Ben Turok
Publisher: New Agenda South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy
ISBN: 9780620409711
Category : Development policy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Experience in developing countries shows that wealth does not "trickle down". No matter how strongly the IMF and World Bank advise that salvation lies in growth, when that growth comes from the developed sector of the economy, it benefits the rich and simply does not reach the poor majority. Conditions in South Africa show the same outcome. Fourteen years after the ANC came to power, the unemployment rate of 24 percent is more than twice that of the next country on the list (Economist). Poverty is so prevalent that welfare grants are a desperate remedy in this "budget surplus" economy. No one denies that inequality is rising. All of this flies in the face of the Freedom Charter's declaration that sharing would be the guiding principle for democratic South Africa. This book is the result of a high level seminar convened to draw together the threads of a vigorour national debate on the role of the state in socio-economic development. Hosted by the Minister of Provincial and Local Government, it was attended by top leaders and officials of the state, parastatal development organisations and academic institutions.

Author: Godfrey Kanyenze
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956764396
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years. However, this was not accompanied by structural transformation: poverty, food insecurity, unemployment and inequality persist. Structural transformation has not been - and indeed cannot be - delivered by market forces and neo-liberal economic policies; it requires a state committed to development, and to achieving it in a democratic way. To what extent do the countries of Southern Africa exhibit the characteristics of such a developmental state? What steps, if any, do they need to take in order to become one? The book answers the questions with respect to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Malawi. Godfrey Kanyenze and his colleagues have assembled a distinguished team of writers to take the temperature of the regional political economy, and chart a path for its future development.

Author: Marta Martinelli
Publisher: Edizioni Nuova Cultura
ISBN: 8868125951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Africa is experiencing one of the greatest transformations of its history. Today’s Sub-Saharan Africa is still marked by enduring instability, mass migrations and crises, but at the same time it is also characterised by positive developments including economic growth and regional integration. This publication sheds light on these changes from three perspectives: economic policies and sustainable development; good governance and democracy; peace and security. Research in relevant regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and key countries (Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa) has been conducted by African and European experts with the aim of assessing the role of the private sector and determining the partner-ship opportunities that could potentially be developed with the public sector. A series of policy recommendations are offered to the European Union on how to tackle these opportunities in cooperation with old and new actors.

Author: Brian Levy
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821360002
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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This publication considers options for strengthening institutional capacity within the public sector in African countries, by drawing on the experiences of public sector reform programmes in over a dozen African states. Issues discussed include: the relationship between governance and economic development, public expenditure and accountability, anti-corruption reforms, the politics of decentralisation, political structures and public service delivery.