Development planning in South Africa : provincial policy and state power in the Eastern Cape / John Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, John Hunter, 1967- author.

Series:

Politics and development in contemporary Africa.

Politics and development in contemporary Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--South Africa--Eastern Cape.

Economic development.

Political culture--South Africa.

Political culture.

Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Economic conditions.

Eastern Cape (South Africa).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages).

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2018.

Summary:

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 effort--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--back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The state and state policy: a theoretical perspective

2. The post-apartheid South African state and economy

3. Overview of the provincial growth and development planning process

4. Provincial government political priorities 2002-2004

5. Preparing for the writing of the PGDP Strategy Framework

6. Development of the PGDP Strategy Framework

7. Developing PGDP programmes and gearing for implementation

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and index.

ISBN:

9781350219571

1350219576

9781786991652

1786991659

OCLC:

1032709964