Development Planning in South Africa

Provincial Policy and State Power in the Eastern Cape

By:

John Reynolds

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa

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Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial government consequently launched an historically ambitious programme – the Provincial Growth and Development Plan – aimed at tackling the province's poverty, unemployment and inequality over a ten-year period in a radical policy overhaul. Drawing on the author’s first-hand engagement with the planning process, Development Planning in South Africa is an empirically rich study that utilises a strategic-relational approach to explore the ways in which this unprecedented challenge was negotiated and eventually undermined by the South African state. The first work of its kind, the book provides an indispensable micro-level study with profound implications for how state power is understood to be organised and expressed in state policy. Relevant beyond South Africa to policy implementation in both developing and developed states globally, the book is essential reading for students and scholars of government studies, political economy, development, policy studies and social movements.

Author Biography:

John Reynolds is the founding head of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) in the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University, South Africa. His extensive experience in the Eastern Cape has included work for the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, and on development programmes financed by the European Union.

Release date Australia

December 15th, 2019

Author

John Reynolds

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

6 bw illus

Pages

288

Series

Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa

ISBN-13

9781786991638

Product ID

30229610

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