Development Planning South Africa Provincial Policy & State

Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Capes provincial government consequently launched an historically ambitious programme the Provincial Growth and Development Plan aimed at tackling the provinces poverty, unemployment and inequality over a tenyear period in a radical policy overhaul. Drawing on the authors firsthand engagement with the planning process, Development Planning in South Africa is an empirically rich study that utilises a strategicrelational approach to explore the ways in which this unprecedented challenge was negotiated and eventually undermined by the South African state. The first work of its kind, the book provides an indispensable microlevel study with profound implications for how state power is understood to be organised and expressed in state policy. Relevant beyond South Africa to policy implementation in both developing and developed states globally, the book is essential reading for students and scholars of government studies, political economy, development, policy studies and social movements. | John Reynolds Development Planning in South Africa: Provincial Policy & State