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Beyond the development impasse: the role of local economic development and community self-reliance in rural South Africa
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posted on 2023-06-07, 17:23 authored by Tony Binns, Etienne NelThe failure of successive generations of imported, Western development strategies and projects to deliver meaningful reductions in poverty and achieve basic needs in Africa, has provoked a deep questioning of Western concepts and methodologies of development. Non-governmental organisations and development practitioners are increasingly focusing their attention on strategies which build upon local knowledge, skills and resources. The concepts of 'self-reliance' and local economic development are examined in the context of development challenges which face Africa. This is followed by a detailed case study of local economic development in the rural Mpofu District of the former Ciskei Homeland, which was incorporated into the Eastern Cape province of South Africa with the demise of apartheid in 1994.
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Journal of Modern African StudiesISSN
0022-278XPublisher
Cambridge University PressPublisher URL
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3Volume
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389-408ISBN
0022-278XDepartment affiliated with
- Geography Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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