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| Title: | Basic Needs in the Northern Province and South Africa's Globalization Agenda |
| Author: | Tsheola, Johannes |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | African Development Review |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 48-74 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | basic needs global economy poverty Development and Technology Economics and Trade Labor and Employment Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8268.00045/pdf |
| Abstract: | The requirement for the improvement of poor people's basic needs and overall quality of life is inseparable from concerns with sustainability and State capacity for executing social welfare programmes. South Africa has, paradoxically, redefined the role of the State away from social provision, as it replaced the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) with the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) strategy in 1996. Whereas the RDP accorded the State a pivotal role in meeting basic needs, GEAR pursued outward-looking development. In accordance with the logic of GEAR, the Northern Province Government formulated its Growth and Development Strategy (GDS). Using the Northern Province as a case study, this paper illustrates that GEAR and GDS have engendered outward-looking development that is also open to the dictates of external forces. It is argued that South Africa and its Northern Province are inserted into the global system in such a way that they cannot shape or domesticate globalization for resolution of their germane development difficulties. That form of globalization has not led to the improvement of poor people's access to basic needs. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. |
