Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa

By D. McDonald, J. Pape. 2002

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Electricity reform in developing and transition countries : A reappraisal (2006, background): “The failure of reform to produce environmental, social equity, and access improvements has resulted in organized opposition movements, ranging from local protests against specific projects to global movements against reform policies [33,88–92].”
Local Government Revenue Mobilisation in Anglophone Africa (2012, background): “Yet, experiences from several countries, including Namibia and South Africa, show that user charges can impose a heavy burden on lower-income service users, and exclude the poorer segments of the urban population for the services (Fjeldstad et al 2005; McDonald and Pape 2002).”
‘Social Exclusion’ Discourse and Chronic Poverty: A South African Case Study (2004, background): “The insertion of poor individuals and households into the commercial food system, privatization, and cost recovery for basic services are all part of this story (Barndt, 1999; MacDonald and Pape, 2002).”