scholarly journals Setting the Scene

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Carlos Gradín ◽  
Murray Leibbrandt ◽  
Finn Tarp
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Chronic Poverty ◽  
The Core ◽  
Measurement And Analysis

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution, and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within many countries and in all multilateral agencies. It is at the core of the seventeen goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This chapter introduces a volume that contributes to this important discussion by bringing together assessments of the measurement and analysis of global inequality by leading inequality scholars with a comprehensive view of inequality trends in five of the world’s largest developing countries—Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa. Understanding inequalities in these economies remains challenging, but is of great value in coming to grips with the contemporary global inequalities detailed in other chapters.

scholarly journals Peranan Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan sebagai pilar pendidikan hak asasi manusia

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Warsono Warsono
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Civics Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Democratic Principle

Human Rights are a fundamental problem in every country. especially in the developing countries such as Indonesia. Even though, the state had given protection of human right for everybody, but in Indonesia there are many breakdowns of it. As a democratic state, Indonesia has to regard human right. It is because the human rights were the core of democratic principle. So, the human rights must be trained in the school for every student. By using this way, everybody can know what their rights and obligations very well Civics education can be a vehicle for this goal, because it's one of lessons that talk about human rights and be learned in all school.

scholarly journals Land Use Change, Spatial Interaction, and Sustainable Development in the Metropolitan Urban Areas, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Batara Surya ◽  
Despry Nur Annisa Ahmad ◽  
Harry Hardian Sakti ◽  
Hernita Sahban
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Activity Systems ◽  
The Core ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Urban Activity

Metropolitan Urban Mamminasata South Sulawesi, Indonesia as the object of study is explored in the core-peripheral spatial interaction towards the formation of suburban service centers. The problems raised in this study are (i) is there a relationship/correlation between spatial integration, spatial interaction, and urban agglomeration to the formation of urban activity systems and (ii) how the formation of urban activity systems works as a determinant of economic growth, land use change and environmental quality degradation towards sustainable development in the metropolitan city of Mamminasata. Comparative studies of suburban areas have been carried out over three time periods (2001, 2015 and 2019). Data elaboration on observations, surveys and documentation is done to describe urban dynamics in terms of economic, social and environmental aspects. Path analysis is used to address direct effects, indirect effects, differences, and dependencies between urban elements. The gravity model is used to analyze the spatial interactions of the core city with the periphery. The study results show that spatial integration, spatial interaction and urban agglomeration have a positive effect on the system of urban activity and economic growth in the outskirts of the Mamminasata Metropolitan area. The results of this study recommend policy makers and urban planners that land use change, spatial integration and urban spatial interactions on the spatial scale of metropolitan cities to require the implementation of sustainable development concepts oriented towards saving the environment, ensuring fairness in economic access and creating social cohesion, in line with meeting national Metropolitan city development targets by 2030.

scholarly journals The Impact Of Clean Development Mechanism Projects On Sustainable Development In South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 777
Author(s):  
Surendran Pillay
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Clean Development Mechanism ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Emission Reductions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Impact

Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) have achieved a certain level of cost-effective emission reductions in developing countries. In this context the uneven distribution of CDM projects in certain regions as well as the concentration of CDM projects amongst certain sectors in developing countries have resulted in the issue of whether CDM projects contribute to sustainable development in developing countries. This article examines the impact of CDM projects on sustainable development in South Africa by examining a sample of working CDM projects there and evaluating their impact on environmental, economic and social sustainable development. Based on observations during the study, CDM policy changes are reviewed, and options to enhance the sustainable development implications of CDM projects are explained.

scholarly journals Stop accounting myopia: – think globally: a polemic

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Hopper
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Institutions ◽  
Development Goals

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to cover issues raised in the author’s plenary address to the Journal of Accounting and Organizational Network Conference held in Melbourne in November 2017. This called for accountants, whether professionals in practice or in academia, to broaden their vision of accounting and accountability beyond the financial accountability of organisations, and serving corporate and capital market interests, to consider how it can help achieve sustainable development goals.Design/methodology/approachThe discussion is based on personal experience, cognate literature and policies of major global institutions.FindingsWhilst the need for financial reporting will remain, there is a pressing need for reporting to measure, monitor and make accountable organisations’ obligations to help achieve sustainable development goals established by global institutions such as the United Nations. Areas of importance discussed are accounting for human rights, mitigation of climate change, securing decent work, increasing accountability – especially civil society democratic participation – and a greater and more equal partnership with stakeholders and developing countries to address their needs.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper is a personal polemic intended to provoke reflection and reform amongst accountants.Practical implicationsThe paper outlines the areas where accounting could and has addressed human rights and sustainability issues.Social implicationsThe social implications are vast, for they extend to major issues concerning the preserving the planet, its species, humankind and enhanced democratic processes for civil society and developing countries.Originality/valueThe paper reinforces the need for policy reforms advocated by social and environmental accounting researchers.

Conservation servitudes in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 105-133
Author(s):  
Marthán Theart ◽  
Kirstin Meiring
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Access To Finance ◽  
Insolvency Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
African Context ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a significant role in the economy of developing countries. Although SMEs contribute to economic growth, they still struggle with access to finance and cash flow constraints. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic worsened this situation, making it necessary for countries to develop rescue regimes suitable for financially distressed SMEs. Focusing on Nigeria and Kenya – which represent the largest economies in West Africa and East Africa respectively – this paper critically sheds light on the socio-legal challenges posed by extant insolvency law regimes in both countries and their unsuitability for driving SME rescue. As a conversation starter in the African context, the authors identify transplanted concepts and structures which make SME rescue a futility, in the light of local circumstances, while proposing solutions tailored to the social milieu of both countries.

Political Violence in South Africa: The Role of Youth

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
Saths Cooper
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
South African ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The South ◽  
The Core

A meaningful understanding of the causes of political violence in South Africa and youth’s role in its dénouement must consider some of the historical background to the national struggle for human rights and youth’s specific involvement thereof. The phenomenon of adolescent marchers and activists who characterized the resistance to Apartheid over the last decade has had sequelae and antecedents that reflect the core of the South African dilemma.

Expanding Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption and Social Institutions

2019 ◽  
pp. 284-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neha Purushottam
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Institutional Actors

Sustainable development is part of the developmental agenda for developed and developing countries both. For developing countries, growth is critical but resource consuming. Therefore, it is important to ensure equitable growth in these countries without degradation of natural and social environment and resources. Sustainable consumption and production both are part of Sustainable Development Goal 12. Mostly countries focus on the production rather than on the consumption, which needs to be changed. South Africa faces challenges of under-consumption in lower income classes and over-consumption in affluent and aspiring middle classes. Examination of institutional actors highlights the gap, which can be filled by social institutions. Social institutions are active and growing in South Africa and were identified suitable to promote sustainable consumption through cooperation, collaboration, and partnerships. This chapter attempts to expand the research agenda to examine the role and potential of social institutions in facilitating sustainable consumption in a developing country like South Africa.

Sharing Economies: The Impact of Online Platforms in Social Exclusion and Economic Marginalisation in South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 239448112110203
Author(s):  
Khalida Akbar ◽  
Shamim Bodhanya
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Theoretical Data ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Bottom Of The Pyramid ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
The Impact

The concept of sharing economies is a developing phenomenon that is highly prevalent in international economies and currently exists in South Africa as well. However, the concept of sharing economy is not totally accepted and practiced to its optimal potential. This study focuses on the population of South Africa that is considered to be socially excluded and economically marginalised. Theoretical data indicate that these individuals form part of the lower income citizens and are part of the bottom of the pyramid. This study provides evidence that the concept of sharing economy can be used via online platforms to optimise economic growth opportunities so as to minimise the current gap of social exclusion and economic marginalisation. Current literature specified that the barriers to economic growth with sharing economies in South Africa are due to a lack of internet access, unemployment, education, health and governance. South Africa is a developing nation and with the aid of enhanced governance with regard to sharing economies, training and development and cultural diversity acceptance, sharing economies is a potential catalyst to attaining equality and bridging the gap of social exclusion and economic marginalisation.

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