Long-Run Spatial Inequality in South Africa: Early Settlement Patterns and Separate Development

Fintel, Von

doi:10.1080/10800379.2018.12097335

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“…Studies such as Hellberg 2017 2018, and Smith (2021), among others, all attest to the fact that service delivery, especially water services, is unevenly skewed in favor of the urban areas at the detriment of the rural communities in South Africa. This is also closely related to the historical inequality experienced by the former homelands in South Africa in the sense that the government concentrated on service delivery in the urban areas (David et al 2018;Von Fintel 2018).…”

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Climate change and water insecurity in rural uMkhanyakude District Municipality: an assessment of coping strategies for rural South Africa

Patrick

2021

H2Open Journal

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The vulnerability of Africa to climate change extremes and eventual impacts is extremely high due to the weak coping strategies prevalent in the continent. The peculiarity of South Africa to these vulnerabilities, especially for water security, is an issue of socioeconomic and policy issue. Based on the premises of human security, the study assesses the coping strategies of rural communities in South Africa, focusing on uMkhanyakude District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, given the effects of climate change-induced water scarcity on the area. The study employed a multilayered descriptive mixed method triangulation approach. It focused specifically on the connection between water and climate change and the adopted everyday vertical and horizontal coping strategies. The findings revealed a strong correlation between the behavioral and traditional coping strategies in the study area, water depletion/scarcity, and climate change. It also showed that government institutions are reactionary in their response to climate change-induced impacts. The study, therefore, recommends a pre-resilience mechanism that makes institutions and individuals proactive rather than adopting a reactionary post-resilience strategy in response to the effects of climate change-induced water security.

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Section: Findings the Impact Of Climate Change On Watermentioning

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Climate change and water insecurity in rural uMkhanyakude District Municipality: an assessment of coping strategies for rural South Africa

Patrick

2021

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“…Many factors influence regional development patterns: natural endowment, mobility of factors of production, stage of economic development, quality of governance, and economies of scale leading to specialization. Balanced regional development has been a touchstone for policy evaluation in South Africa, but Fintel (2018) has ascertained that agglomeration and historical institutional failures are the main reasons for spatial/regional inequality in the RSA. Similarly, Gelb (2004) and Woolard (2002) have acknowledged the presence of absolute income divergence in the region.…”

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Regional and subregional analyses of macroeconomic policy strategies for growth and equality in Southern Africa

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Mishra²,

Sahoo³

et al. 2020

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We investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an understanding of growth and inequality in the region. The region has experienced β- and σ-convergence; however, growth rates of per capita gross domestic product are low at aggregate and sectoral levels. At sectoral level, the performance of the tertiary sector is better than that of the primary and secondary sectors. The relatively poor performance of the primary and secondary sectors needs policy attention. For the provinces of South Africa, capital expenditure on key sectors such as education and health can enhance growth rate, whereas the overall revenue expenditure retards growth. Therefore, provinces’ capital budgets need to be managed well within the limitation of revenue expenditure to avoid fiscal imbalances.

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“…In a bid to understand the impact of apartheid's spatial policies, Von Fintel (2018) and David et al, (2018) analysed the role of the former homelands system on current regional wage gaps, poverty and inequality in South Africa. These studies allude to the fact that South Africa's poverty and inequality patterns are deeply rooted in the repressive institutions of the apartheid regime.…”

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“…First, labour demand is relatively lower in FH areas. New economic geography theory posits that historically densely populated areas become more industrialised due to possibility of increasing returns to scale (Krugman, 1991;von Fintel, 2018). However, institutional failure under apartheid interrupted the 'natural' industrial agglomeration process that could have occurred in FH areas (von Fintel, 2018).…”

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“…New economic geography theory posits that historically densely populated areas become more industrialised due to possibility of increasing returns to scale (Krugman, 1991;von Fintel, 2018). However, institutional failure under apartheid interrupted the 'natural' industrial agglomeration process that could have occurred in FH areas (von Fintel, 2018). Second, the human capital theory predicts a positive correlation between an individual's amount of human capital and their chances of employment.…”

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Long-Run Spatial Inequality in South Africa: Early Settlement Patterns and Separate Development

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

Climate change and water insecurity in rural uMkhanyakude District Municipality: an assessment of coping strategies for rural South Africa

Climate change and water insecurity in rural uMkhanyakude District Municipality: an assessment of coping strategies for rural South Africa

Regional and subregional analyses of macroeconomic policy strategies for growth and equality in Southern Africa

Former Homeland Areas and Unemployment in South Africa: A Decomposition Approach

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