Economic Policy and Power Relations in South Africa's Transition to Democracy

Habib, Adam; Padayachee, Vishnu

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(99)00130-8

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“…Economic performance slowed down considerably and GDP growth dropped to below zero in 1982. The South African debt crisis in 1985 (Michie and Padayachee 1998;Habib and Padayachee 2000) contributed to the collapse of the economic and political system in the late 1980s and to the democratic transition, starting in the early 1990s.…”

Section: Political and Economic Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Changes in land use in South Africa between 1961 and 2006: an integrated socio-ecological analysis based on the human appropriation of net primary production framework

Niedertscheider¹,

Gingrich²,

Erb³

2012

Reg Environ Change

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The interrelation between land-use change and socioeconomic changes is complex and highly dynamic. We here present an assessment of the human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) in Republic of South Africa (RSA) between 1961 and 2006. HANPP is an integrated socio-ecological accounting framework that traces changes in ecosystems resulting from anthropogenic activities (harvest and land conversions) and allows to study ecological, social and economic driving forces and constraints of long-term land-use changes. We use South Africa, with its history of the rise and collapse of the Apartheid regime, as an example for an analysis of HANPP trajectories in the background of major governance shifts, and base our analysis on the best available statistical datasets, specific analyses and model results. Surprisingly, land cover as well as HANPP in the RSA remained relatively constant between 1961 and 2006, with HANPP values oscillating between 21 and 25% and of the potential NPP. However, through our analysis of the components of HANPP and their interrelations, striking turning points throughout the last five decades become evident. This allows us to discern three distinct periods, each of the phases characterized by distinct HANPP trajectories. Throughout the entire period, a trend of decoupling of HANPP from population growth could be achieved through considerable gains in land-use efficiency. The HANPP analysis reveals that this prevailing trend of increasing land-use efficiency, based on technological improvements and biomass trade, came to a halt in the 'crisis' phase and immediately recovered afterwards.

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Section: Political and Economic Crisismentioning

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“…Immediately afterwards, South Africa re-entered the global market and joined the World Trade Union. The ANC committed to a neo-liberal growth strategy with new legislations on privatisation and liberalisation of the financial and trade sector as part of the GEAR strategy (Habib and Padayachee 2000).…”

Section: Democratic Openingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changes in land use in South Africa between 1961 and 2006: an integrated socio-ecological analysis based on the human appropriation of net primary production framework

Niedertscheider¹,

Gingrich²,

Erb³

2012

Reg Environ Change

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“…As a result, nationally-based producers were for a long time insulated from the cut and thrust of international competition. Since the transition period (post 1994), however, the South African manufacturing industry landscape has been substantially altered by the twin pressures of globalization and the rapid liberalization of the trade policy regime, and reinforced by a major shift in state policy to open markets, a rapid erosion of both tariff and non-tariff barriers and the implementation of an export-oriented industrial policy (Habib and Padayachee, 2000). The key challenge thus confronting the South African manufacturing sector is not whether to participate in global processes, but how to do so in ways which provide for sustainable growth.…”

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The Status of B2B e-Commerce in the South African Manufacturing Sector: Evolutionary or Revolutionary?

Moodley

2002

SAJIC

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“…The authorities gave priority to internal financial and investor community concerns over those of labour or inherited social problems (see Habib and Padayachee, 2000).…”

Section: South Africamentioning

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Globalisation, Poverty and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Tsikata¹

2001

OECD Development Centre Working Papers

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Economic Policy and Power Relations in South Africa's Transition to Democracy

Cited by 125 publications

References 15 publications

Changes in land use in South Africa between 1961 and 2006: an integrated socio-ecological analysis based on the human appropriation of net primary production framework

Changes in land use in South Africa between 1961 and 2006: an integrated socio-ecological analysis based on the human appropriation of net primary production framework

The Status of B2B e-Commerce in the South African Manufacturing Sector: Evolutionary or Revolutionary?

Globalisation, Poverty and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

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