South Africa: Developmental failure or neoliberal success?

Workshop on the Political Economy of South Africa

13 March 2014; 8:30am – 17:00pm
Wits Club

 

The main objective of this workshop was to unpack the concurrent political, economic and social dynamics of neoliberal deepening under a democratic regime, thereby shedding light on the complex unfolding and idiosyncrasies of neoliberalism in post-apartheid South Africa. The workshop drew on a specific case study of South Africa commissioned by the French Development Agency (AFD – Research Department) as part of a series of international comparative case studies interrogating the framework developed by D. North (Nobel Prize), J. Wallis, and B. Weingast, on Violence and Social Order (CUP, 2009) and coordinated by the AFD. Case studies included Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Pakistan, Turkey, and Vietnam. Some of the papers presented at the workshop have been published in the December 2013 special issue of the Review Of African Political Economy under the title “Revisiting the South African developmental impasse: the national neoliberal revolution”.

 

> The papers can be found on the ROAPE website.
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> Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP)