Development in Southern Africa

By J. Kirsten, P. Moller. Southern Journal for Contemporary History, 2002

186 citations recorded by the source corpus.

It is well known that the world has become globalised due to growing economic, political, social and cultural integration and interdependence among states. Several kinds of cultural diffusions have contributed to this situation and to the five-fold expansion of the global economy in the last four decades. It could therefore be expected that the quality of life of especially the least industrialised nations in the world would have been improved. However, economic forces of globalisation are moving toward greater inequality among states. This has become at least one of the reasons why many people in Africa are experiencing severe poverty and live on less than one US dollar a day. In addition to poverty, various other negative factors contribute to the lack of sustainable development in Africa: a lack of competitiveness and democracy, high population growth, HIV/AIDS, deficient leadership and war.Using a functionalist conceptual model, the purpose of this article is to alialyse the said issues that inhibit sustainable development in primarily South Africa. Sustainable development means the fulfilment of the functions of adaptation, goal attainment, integration as well as pattern maintenance and tension management. The role that South Africa could play in the sustainable development of the Southern Africau Development Community (SADC) region will also be discussed.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Law, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Panel evidence on the impact of tourism growth on poverty, poverty gap and income inequality (2019, unknown): “(2012) South Africa Social Accounting Matrix Tourism reduces poverty but is not pro-poor Vanegas et al. (2015) Costa Rica, 1970–2012 Nicaragua, 1980–2012 Autoregressive distributed lag bounds test for co-integration Poverty is reduced”
• Transport Services and Their Impact on Poverty and Growth in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Recent Research and Future Research Needs (2012, unknown): “Means of improving girls’ access to and use of bicycles towards improved school attendance or employment, for instance, are little understood (Mahapa, 2003), while the role of transport as a niche employer for the poor (notably young men’s employment in motorcycle-taxi businesses) raises questions…”