The Development Decade?

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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. Locating the South African challenges within a broader international perspective, the issues covered include all the major economic growth challenges confronting South Africa - employment, industrial policy, urban governance, the informal economy - and 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 or otherwise of a decade of reform and experimentation is considered. Contributors include leading American development economists Gill Hart and Michael Carter, respected African development scholar Dani Nabudere, noted British economist Jonathan Michie, and prominent South African scholars Alan Whiteside, Julian May, Mike Morris, Francie Lund, Haroon Bhorat, Adam Habib, Eleanor Preston-Whyte, Bill Freund, Dale McKinley, and Lungisile Ntsebeza.

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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.