The Development Decade?: Economic and Social Change in South Africa, 1994-2004Vishnu Padayachee HSRC Press, 2006 - 471 páginas Locating the South African challenges within a broader international perspective, this study covers all the major economic growth challanges from employment, industrial policy, urban governance, and the informal economy to the social challenges of poverty, inequality, HIV/AIDS, and health policy. The key development debates of the post-apartheid era are outlined and the success of a decade of reform and experimentation is considered by a wide range of international development specialists, including American economists Gil Hart and Michael Carter; British economist Jonathan Michie; and South African Scholars Alan Whitesides, Julian May, and Mike Morris. |
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... major theories of development that have emerged in the last 60 years , and the rise , fall and resurrection ( as it were ) of ' development theory ' in the post - war period , as well as continuities and discontinuities in the way these ...
... major theories of development that have emerged in the last 60 years , and the rise , fall and resurrection ( as it were ) of ' development theory ' in the post - war period , as well as continuities and discontinuities in the way these ...
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... major theories of development that have emerged over the past 60 years . What I am going to try to do , of necessity in extremely broad brush strokes , is identify a series of key turning points since 1944 , and suggest their relevance ...
... major theories of development that have emerged over the past 60 years . What I am going to try to do , of necessity in extremely broad brush strokes , is identify a series of key turning points since 1944 , and suggest their relevance ...
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... there were at least 30 major guerilla wars during the 1950s and 1960s ! - student - led democratic movements , worker and union struggles , and nascent ' culturalisms ' seen 16 THE DEVELOPMENT DECADE ? SOUTH AFRICA , 1994-2004.
... there were at least 30 major guerilla wars during the 1950s and 1960s ! - student - led democratic movements , worker and union struggles , and nascent ' culturalisms ' seen 16 THE DEVELOPMENT DECADE ? SOUTH AFRICA , 1994-2004.
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... major sites of Keynesian welfarism in the post - war period - is particularly interesting from a South African perspective , precisely because it was not imposed by the IMF and World Bank . In his compelling analysis of the connections ...
... major sites of Keynesian welfarism in the post - war period - is particularly interesting from a South African perspective , precisely because it was not imposed by the IMF and World Bank . In his compelling analysis of the connections ...
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... major economic problems and severe inequalities . This led to a sense in which issues were seen in technical terms and were regarded as being solved with growing technological expertise . They were not viewed as problems of major ...
... major economic problems and severe inequalities . This led to a sense in which issues were seen in technical terms and were regarded as being solved with growing technological expertise . They were not viewed as problems of major ...
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activities AIDS analysis apartheid areas asset Cape Town capital cent cluster competition condom constraints context costs countries democracy democratic Durban Eastern Cape economic development economic growth effect employment enterprises epidemic expenditure exports firms focus formal framework gender global HIV/AIDS Hountondji households impact important income increased industrial policy inequality infection inflation informal economy infrastructure initiatives innovation institutional interest rates interventions investment issues Johannesburg KwaZulu-Natal labour market liberalisation macroeconomic major manufacturing ment municipal NAIRU neo-liberal organisations pension political poor post-apartheid poverty reduction Pretoria privatisation pro-poor productivity programmes protection reduce reform response result Rogerson role rural sector significant social movements South Africa South African economy Statistics South Africa StatsSA strategy structural survey tariff tion trade unemployed University University of Natal wage Washington Consensus WBLMS women workers World Bank
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Página 310 - ease of entry; reliance on indigenous resources; family ownership of enterprises; small scale of operation; labour intensive and adapted technology; skills acquired outside the formal school system; and unregulated and competitive markets.
Página 310 - The informal economy is not an individual condition but a process of income-generation characterized by one central feature: it is unregulated by the institutions of society, in a legal and social environment in which similar activities are regulated Las características derivadas de esta clandestinidad estructural son, ante todo, observables en los talleres maquila17 Ver la nota 2.
Página 229 - Government introduced the concept of 'developmental local government', which was defined as 'local government committed to working with citizens and groups within the community to find sustainable ways to meet their social, economic and material needs and improve the quality of their lives
Página 39 - Historically, modernization is the process of change towards those types of social, economic, and political systems that have developed in Western Europe and North America from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth and have then spread to other European countries and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the South American, Asian and African continents (Eisenstadt, 1966, p.
Página 63 - ... of 5 per cent, 10 per cent, 15 per cent, 20 per cent, 30 per cent, 40 per cent...
Página 203 - We propose to define industrial policy as a policy aimed at particular industries (and firms as their components) to achieve the outcomes that are perceived by the state to be efficient for the economy as a whole.
Página 39 - ... disappeared with the growing disillusionment over the actual performance of new states in the post-independence period. In the mid-1960s it was recognised that simplistic attempts to classify societies in terms of certain pattern variables is unacceptable as a form of analysis. Equally unacceptable was the assumption that the advance from tradition to modernity would be a simple unilinear progression.
Página 444 - A municipality must (a) structure and manage its administration, and budgeting and planning processes to give priority to the basic needs of the community, and to promote the social and economic development of the community; and (b) participate in national and provincial development programmes.
Página 1 - These turnarounds were facilitated by the alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP...
Página 229 - A participatory approach to integrate economic, sectoral, spatial, social, institutional, environmental and fiscal strategies in order to support the optimal allocation of scarce resources between sectors and geographical areas and across the population in a manner that provides sustainable growth, equity and the empowerment of the poor and the marginalised.