Agritourism and local economic development in South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (26) ◽  
pp. 93-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. Rogerson ◽  
Jayne M. Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
National Economic Development

Abstract The role of tourism for local economic development (LED) is a topic of critical importance for geographers. In the case of South Africa tourism is a priority sector for national economic development. The significance of research issues around tourism and LED is underlined by the ‘developmental’ mandate of local governments. Although tourism has received attention in a growing body of LED writings on South Africa issues around agritourism so far have been overlooked. Agritourism represents an evolving form of rural tourism which is targeted at mainly urban consumers. Against the background of a review of international scholarship on agritourism this article explores its potential implications for LED planning in South Africa. A national audit of agritourism is presented which shows its uneven geographical distribution. Agritourism is of special significance for small town economic development in South Africa’s intermediate tourism spaces. Policy suggestions are offered for strengthening agritourism as a driver for LED in South Africa.

Law and Economic Development in South Africa: An Assessment through the General Theory of Law and Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. K. Pooe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
African National Congress ◽  
Law And Development ◽  
Theory Of Law

Abstract The ascension of the African National Congress into formal politics through its electoral victory in 1994 resulted in South Africa adopting one of the world’s most heralded social justice and human rights-based documents, the 1996 Constitution. Yet, two-decades of ANC governance this paper argues has not led to the types of economic development needed to advance the formerly oppressed African majority, Colored and Indian populations. This lackluster economic development is even more troubling when one considers the giant economic development steps Asian developmental states have made, without a human rights and social justice approach. It is the contention of this paper that the newly presented General Theory of Law and Development allows for a new type of analysis exploring the reasons why South Africa’s economic development trajectory has been so lackluster, when so many authorities praise the South African legal framework. In making this argument using the General Theory South Africa’s local governments sphere and local economic development will be the subject of analysis.

The Suez Company's Concession in Egypt, 1854–1956: Modern Infrastructure and Local Economic Development

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-127
Author(s):  
Caroline Piquet
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
National Economic ◽  
European Business ◽  
Full Benefit ◽  
The One

For over a century in Egypt, the Suez Canal Company reflected the role of the concession in European economic expansion overseas. Concession was a European business practice widespread in Egypt; it was an institution inherited from a system of privileges for Europeans since the Middle Ages. It promised a way for Egypt to adopt modern infrastructures and receive needed European help for digging the canal. The results of the Suez Company are indisputable: the desert of the Suez Isthmus became a lively economic region with active ports, growing cities, and an expanding labor force. And the region was linked to the rest of the country by a new road network. At the same time, however, the concession system denied Egypt full benefit of this infrastructure. The canal served the financial and strategic interests of the company, not the interests of the local economy. This outcome embodied all the contradictions of the concession system: on the one hand, concessions were a necessity for modern infrastructure development in Egypt; on the other, they were a hindrance to further national economic development.

scholarly journals Industrial strategy and local economic development: The case of the foundry industry in Ekurhuleni Metro

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Phele ◽  
S Roberts ◽  
I Steuart
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Foundry Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Concrete Action

This  article explores the challenges for the development of manufacturing through a case study of the foundry industry in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. Ekurhuleni Metro covers the largest concentration in South Africa, but the industry’s performance has been poor over the past decade.  The findings reported here highlight the need to understand firm decisions around investment, technology and skills, and the role of local economic linkages in this regard.  The differing performance of foundries strongly supports the need to develop concrete action plans and effective institutions at local level to support the development of local agglomerations.

scholarly journals The strategy of the Development of Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) - Based Agriculture in the District Juli Bireuen

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Teuku Qadarisman ◽  
Zakiah Zakiah ◽  
Suyanti Kasimin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Defensive Strategy ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
National Economic ◽  
National Economic Development ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Village

Rural economic development is an important thing to do given the national economic development should start from the village. One of the efforts that can be done to develop the economy of the village is through entrepreneurship village, which can be the strategy in the development and growth of the welfare of the village community. Entrepreneurship village can be developed through the establishment of Badan Usaha Milik Desa (BUMDes). Rural regions that can not be separated from the agricultural sector, with the importance of the role of agricultural sector to the economy of the country, then the business BUMDes needs to be directed or developed with the activities of the agriculture-based businesses. The results obtained from this research is that BUMDes-based agriculture in the Juli District, Bireun District is in quadrant IV (diversify activities). In this quadrant the position of the organization is in the market is very small and the growth rate is low, therefore it is necessary to diversify the business. This position indicates an organization is weak and facing a big challenge. The recommendations of the given strategy is a survival strategy, meaning that the internal conditions of the organization is on the choice of a dilemma. Therefore, organizations are advised to use a defensive strategy, control of the performance of the internal so not getting mired. This strategy is maintained while continuing to attempt to fix themselves.

scholarly journals Compras públicas como instrumento para o desenvolvimento econômico nacional: novidades e questionamentos oriundos das alterações promovidas pela Lei nº 12.349/2010

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Henrique Sperandio Roxo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
National Development ◽  
Government Procurement ◽  
Development News ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
National Economic Development

<p><strong>COMPRAS PÚBLICAS COMO INSTRUMENTO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO ECONÔMICO NACIONAL: NOVIDADES E QUESTIONAMENTOS ORIUNDOS DAS ALTERAÇÕES PROMOVIDAS PELA LEI Nº 12.349/2010 </strong></p><p><strong>Resumo:</strong> O poder de compra do Estado é um instrumento relevante para a promoção do desenvolvimento econômico nacional, em especial quando alinhado a outros mecanismos de política industrial de corte vertical. Considerando a magnitude das compras públicas no Brasil, torna-se ainda mais necessário que os certames licitatórios atendam não apenas ao interesse primário da Administração Pública (maior “vantajosidade” nas contratações), mas também realizem políticas públicas vinculadas aos objetivos constitucionais que imperativamente moldam toda a atuação do Estado brasileiro. Neste sentido, torna-se essencial compreender como as alterações promovidas no art. 3º da Lei Geral de Licitações (Lei n.º 8.666/1993) possibilitam a efetiva conformação de políticas públicas a partir do mecanismo das compras governamentais. O presente estudo abordará especialmente as disposições legais e regulamentares que tornam subsistente a concessão de tratamento privilegiado na aquisição de produtos manufaturados e/ou serviços nacionais, seja a partir da instituição de margens de preferência, seja pela restrição à participação de bens importados nos certames licitatórios.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chaves:</strong> margem de preferência; licitações; tratamento privilegiado; restrição a bens importados; desenvolvimento nacional sustentável.</p><p><strong>PUBLIC PURCHASES AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: NEWS AND QUESTIONS FROM THE AMENDMENTS PROMOTED BY LAW Nº 12.349 OF 2010</strong></p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Public policies can be managed by the application of measures that restrict the government’s purchase of supplies, producing relevant effects in the economic development, especially when these mechanisms are aligned with other vertical industrial policy measures. Considering the magnitude of Brazilian government procurement budget, it becomes strictly necessary that bidding processes conform also the purpose of promoting public policies connected to the economic constitutional aims, that necessarily must shape the role of Brazilian State. This work paper aim to understand how the changes introduced by the art 3º of the General Procurement Law (Law n.º 8.666/1993) allow the effective shaping of public polices from the mechanism of government procurement. This study will discuss in particular legal tools that make subsistente the privileged treatment concession in the puchase of manufactured goods and/or national services, either from the institution of preference margins, either by restricting the participacion of imported goods in the bidding processes.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> preference margins; government procurement; privileged treatment; national development; bidding processes.</p><p><strong>Data da submissão:</strong> 09/11/2016                   <strong>Data da aprovação:</strong> 09/12/2016</p>

scholarly journals Reframing place-based economic development in South Africa: the example of local economic development

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (24) ◽  
pp. 203-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Framework Conditions

Abstract Local Economic Development (LED) planning is a place-based approach to development planning and increasingly significant across much of the global South. One of the key challenges facing LED planning is the necessity to adjust planning in relation to the dynamic nature of both international and national framework conditions. The purpose of this article is to show this challenge by examining the dynamic nature of the national policy environment impacting upon LED planning in South Africa, a country which has a relatively long history of LED planning. Five dimensions of the changing landscape of national economic development planning in South Africa are identified. These relate to (a) LED within the context of new national economic and development plans; (b) initiatives for reindustrialising the South African economy, the associated importance of localisation and promotion of the green economy; (c) changing programmes around small business development; (d) shifts in rural development interventions; and (e) the fluid spatial context within which LED planning as a form of placebased economic development is embedded.

scholarly journals Tourism policy and territorial imbalances in Spain

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (22) ◽  
pp. 7-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Almeida García
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Extensive Review ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
National Economic Development ◽  
Tourism Policy ◽  
Hotel Accommodation

AbstractThis paper aims to analyse Spanish tourism policy and its relation to a series of facts. The research combines an extensive review of the existing studies into the aspects of tourism policy linked to government, geography and economy with an examination of statistical sources. The main issues and findings analysed in this study are highlighted below. Firstly, the evolution of tourism policy of Spain in the last 60 years in relation to the process of national economic development is analysed. Secondly, a limited role of tourism on economic and territorial balance as well as changes in the regional distribution in the supply of hotel accommodation is highlighted. Thirdly, territorial changes related to the supply of hotel accommodation and GDP per capita are discussed. Finally, certain topics are suggested for future debate: tourism and imbalance as well as tourism and development.

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