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Title:Changing Socio-Economic Setting of the Highlands Regions as a Result of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
Author:Matlosa, KhabeleISNI
Year:1998
Periodical:Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Issue:37
Pages:29-45
Language:English
Geographic term:Lesotho
Subjects:dams
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
External link:https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/352/OBJ/download
Abstract:The sheer size of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) and the huge investments pumped into this project are bound to determine Lesotho's political economy for generations to come. In the debate about the nature and content of the changes two different approaches can be distinguished: a quantitative approach, advanced by the Lesotho government and the World Bank, which focuses on the quantity of benefits accruing to Lesotho in general and the Highlands areas in particular, and a qualitative approach, advanced by international and local NGOs, which focuses on the socioeconomic quality of the changes for Lesotho in general and the Highland people in particular. The primary aim of this article is to present these approaches as complementary rather than competitive modes of analysis. It explores the macro and micro-socioeconomic impact the project has had since infrastructural works started in 1988. It focuses on phase 1A, which is almost complete, and makes preliminary observations about phase 1B, which is still in the embryonic stage. Bibliogr.
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