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| Title: | The RDP White Paper: Reconstruction of a Development Vision? |
| Authors: | Adelzadeh, Asghar Padayachee, Vishnu |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 25 |
| Pages: | 1-18 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | economic policy national plans |
| External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/243/OBJ/download |
| Abstract: | Originally scheduled for release in mid-July 1994, the white paper on the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) was finally published in South Africa on September 21 after many last minute differences, both within the Government of National Unity (GNU) and the ANC-alliance, had ostensibly been settled. Although some of the principles and policy options discussed in the white paper are valuable, the white paper itself turns out to be a major disappointment. This article criticizes some specific policy proposals advanced in the white paper with respect to fiscal policy, monetary and financial policy, international economic policy, and industrial and labour policy. The RDP white paper, and the recent public pronouncements of ANC and GNU spokespersons, appear to emphasize liberalization, free markets, and the building of (domestic and foreign) business and investor confidence, as if these are all that is required for development to occur. While this strategy may well generate some level of economic growth and lead, amongst others, to the development of a black middle class, for the remaining 60-70 percent of South African society, however, this growth path will deliver little or nothing for many years to come. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
