Transmission belt for transnational capital or facilitator for development? Problematising the role of the state in the Maputo Development Corridor

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Söderbaum ◽  
Ian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
The State ◽  
Investment Promotion ◽  
Jobless Growth ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Inclusive Governance

This article problematises the role of the state in what is claimed to be the ‘flagship’ of the South African Spatial Development Initiative (SDI) programme, the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC). The purpose is to assess to what extent the state is best understood as a ‘transmission belt’ for transnational capital or as a ‘facilitator’ for development. The study reveals several flaws in the MDC which reinforce the role of the state as a transmission belt for transnational capital, rather than as a facilitator for development. For instance, the neo-liberal market fundamentalism and big-bang approach inherent in the MDC spells ‘jobless growth’. Similarly, the notion that ‘good governance is less government’, implies that the state is to a large extent reduced to an ‘investment promotion agency’. Having said this, the MDC does contain several novel and positive features, and its problematic aspects can be overcome through some strategic changes in the MDC approach. These may be summarised as a heavier focus on ‘development’, a more pro-active state, and more comprehensive and inclusive governance structures.

South Africa's Brittle Peace: The Problem of Post-Settlement Violence. By Pierre du Toit. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 222p. $65.00. Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition. By Courtney Jung. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 320p. $35.00.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 656-657
Author(s):  
Allison Drew
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South African ◽  
The State ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Violence

These two books deal with the legacy of apartheid for South Africa's democracy, approaching the problems posed by this legacy from differing perspectives about the role of the state. Pierre du Toit, in a thoughtful and well-researched book, addresses the problem of violence in post-apartheid South Africa. Peace in a society with a history of violence needs to be nurtured, he contends, and the state must play a central role.

Taiwan's Electronics Sector: Restructuring of Form and Space

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.L. Chou ◽  
R.J.R. Kirkby
Keyword(s):  
Leading Edge ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Restructuring ◽  
Production Location ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Electronics Sector

The dynamics of leading-edge industries are of primary importance in understanding national trajectories of industrialisation and corresponding spatial development. With reference to the state's role and the increasing importance of transnational flows, the paper analyses the emergence of Taiwan's electronics sector in the context of technical and organisational issues. It also traces the impacts on location and space. The paper demonstrates the implications for Taiwan's electronics sector of recurrent restructuring of the industry globally. The indispensable role of the state is examined, as an agent of both industrial restructuring and of production location. The paper shows that the trajectory of development of electronics in postwar Taiwan is a function of global forces as refracted through the prism of a strategic state.

The Role of the State in the Uneven Spatial Development of Italy: The Case of the Mezzogiorno

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umberto DiGiorgi ◽  
Roberto Moscati ◽  
Umberto DiGiorgi ◽  
Roberto Moscati
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State

State Protection of Energy Consumers

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-159
Author(s):  
Hanri Mostert ◽  
Tjakie Naude
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
The State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Market Models ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The One ◽  
State Protection

This chapter scrutinizes the role of the state in ensuring electricity supply and protecting end-consumers along a spectrum of energy market models. On the one end, there are markets dominated by virtual state monopolies, such as the South African example, where supply and consumer protection take on a different shape, compared to those on the other end of the spectrum, where distribution of energy to end-consumers is privatized. The European Union (EU) exemplifies the latter. Analyses of both the Australian and Nigerian models of energy supply and end-consumer protection are included to demonstrate variations within privatized markets, and comment on the role of the state in implementing privatization. Issues of procedural and participatory justice are considered. Social justice issues are raised, furthermore, in that the type of consumer protection in a system is influenced by the degree of affluence of the community and the resilience of the system of governance.

‘Velddrift’: the making of a South African company town

Urban History ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance van Sittert
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
South African ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
The State ◽  
Company Town ◽  
Rural Urbanization ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Shadow Cast

Recent reviews of South African urban history have highlighted its neglect of rural urbanization and the role of the state and capital in urban development. Natural resource frontiers offer a uniquely unobstructed view of rural urbanization under the aegis of capital and the state. The process has been well documented for South Africa's mineral revolution, but other resource frontiers have been completely ignored. The latter developed in the long shadow cast by mining and the urban metropoles, with their centripetal pull on labour and the state, making the company town an archetypal urban form on the rural periphery.

Il Buon Governo Senese

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Drechsler
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Keynote Speech

In his Keynote speech given at the IASIA 2015 Conference in Paris, France, Wolfgang Drechsler, addresses the classic notion of good governance, the role of the state and its role in service delivery

Economic and Legal Support for Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Russia

2003 ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
I. Dezhina ◽  
I. Leonov
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
The State ◽  
Commercial Application ◽  
The West ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Legal Context

The article is devoted to the analysis of the changes in economic and legal context for commercial application of intellectual property created under federal budgetary financing. Special attention is given to the role of the state and to comparison of key elements of mechanisms for commercial application of intellectual property that are currently under implementation in Russia and in the West. A number of practical suggestions are presented aimed at improving government stimuli to commercialization of intellectual property created at budgetary expense.

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