The Development Decade?

Economic and social change in South Africa, 1994-2004 Covering a breadth of issues, the international development specialists who have contributed to this volume significantly deepen our understanding of the key socio-economic issues in the first decade of South Africa’s democratic Governance.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

168mm x 240mm

Pages:

484

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2123-9

Publish Year:

2006

Rights:

World Rights

List of tables and figures

Abbreviations and acronyms

1 Development discourses in post-apartheid South Africa
Vishnu Padayachee.

Section 1 Contempory debates in a global context

2 Post-apartheid developments in historical and comparative perspective
Gillian HArt

3 Development theories, knowledge production and emancipatory practice
Dani Wadada Nabudere

Section 2 Macroeconomic balance and micreconomic reform

4 Reflections in South Africa’s first wave of economic reforms
Rashad Cassim

5 Macroeconomic reforms and employment: what possibilities for South Africa
Jonathan Michie

6 Operationalising South Africa’s move from macroeconomic stability to microeconomic reform
Kuben Naidoo

7 Sequencing micro and macro reforms: reflections on the South African experience
Michael Carter

Section 3 Distributive issues in post-apartheid South Africa

8 Constructing the social policy agenda: conceptual debates around poverty and inequality
Julian May

9 Gender and social security in South Africa
Francie Lund

Section 4 Industrial upgrading and innovation

10 The knowledge of numbers: S&T, R&D and innovation indicators in South Africa
Jo Lorentzen

11 The role of goverment in fostering clusters: the South African automotive sector
Mike Morris, Glen Robbins and Justin Barnes

Section 5 Municipal governance and development

12 Local economic development in post-apartheid South Africa: a ten-year research review
Christian M Rogerson
13 Local economic development: utopia and reality – the example of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Benot Lootvoet and Bill Freund

Section 6 Labour, work and the informal economy

14 Labour supply and demand constraints on employment creation: a microeconomic analysis
Haroon Bhorat
15 Definitions, data and the informal economy in South Africa: a critical analysis
Richard Devey, Caroline Skinner and Imraan Valodia

Section7 Population, health and development
16 Coping with illnesse and deaths in post-apartheid South Africa: family perspectives
Akim Mturi, Thokozani Xaba, Dorothy Sekokotla and Nompumelelo Nzimade
17 Are condoms infiltrating marital and cohabting partnerships? Perspectives of couples in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Pranitha Maharaj and John Cleland

18 Framing the South African AIDS epidemic: a social science perspective
Eleanor Preston-Whyte
19 Economic and development issues around HIV/AIDS
Alan Whiteside and Sabrina Lee

Section 8 Social movements and democratic transition
20 Social movements in South Africa: promoting crisis or creating stability
Richard Ballard, Adam Habib and Imraan Valodia
21 Democracy and social movements in South Africa
Dale McKinley
22 Post-apartheid livelihood struggles in Wentworth, South Durban
Sharad Chari
23 Rural development in South Africa: tensions between democracy and traditional authority
Lungisile Ntsebeza
List of contributors
Index

Volume editor and contributor to the collection , Vishnu Padayachee, is Senior Professor of Economics in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a member of the Board of Directors of the South African Reserve Bank. Professor Padayachee is an internationally acclaimed academic having authored or edited four books and published in a variety of natinal and international journals in the firlds of economics, developement, political economy, labour economics and history, and economic history.