Over the last two decades the concept and practice of Local
Economic Development (LED) has gained widespread acceptance around
the world as a locally-based response to the challenges posed by
globalization, devolution, local-level opportunities, and economic
crises. Support for local economic development is now firmly on the
agenda of many national governments and key international agencies.
This volume examines the debates about Local Economic Development
and examines some of the unfolding experiences of LED in the
developing world. The focus is upon the region of southern Africa,
and more especially upon post-apartheid South Africa. LED emerged
in South Africa as one of the more significant post-apartheid
development options being pursued by empowered localities with the
overt encouragement of national government. Elsewhere in the
developing world, much interest surrounds the experience of LED in
post-apartheid South Africa, which is seen as a laboratory for
experimentation, innovation, and learning. The seventeen chapters
in this book examine the range of LED interventions that have been
the basis for experimentation in the last decade, including both
pro-market as well as pro-poor interventions. Key themes include
debates about the most appropriate policy directions for LED, its
contribution towards sustainable development, the role of social
capital, cluster support, public procurement, eco-development, good
governance and tourism-led LED. The book also contains a series of
detailed case studies on the implementation of LED in South Africa
and the wider region of southern Africa, including analyses of LED
undertaken at a variety of scales from the provincial,
metropolitan, and small-town level. Until now, most research on
local economic development has focused on the developed world. This
volume breaks new ground in applying LED policy and practices to
problems specific to the developing world. It will be of interest
to scholars of development studies, urban and regional planning,
human geography, and urban studies. "This compelling and
comprehensive book provides a look at the innovative (including
pro-poor) local economic development strategies being used in South
Africa. The contributors to "Local Economic Development in the
Changing World: The Experience of Southern Africa"] are among the
very best scholars in the field." -Gary Gaile, University of
Colorado "Etienne Nel and Christian Rogerson have produced an
excellent book on local economic development in South Africa. The
chapters in this timely volume contain many valuable lessons for
both the developing and the developed world. Of particular
importance is the policy focus of Nel and Rogerson on investing in
and empowering low-income workers, entrepreneurs, families, and
neighborhoods. Because of the special emphasis on inclusive
economic development strategies, this book is a very useful guide
to what the Prague Institute calls "Treating People and Communities
as Assets." -Dr. Marc A. Weiss, Chairman and CEO, Prague Institute
for Global Urban Development Etienne Nel is associate professor in
the Department of Geography of Rhodes University, Grahamstown,
South Africa. Christian M. Rogerson is professor of human
geography, School of Geography, Archaeology, and Environmental
Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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