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- Title
Economic Governance and the Local Business Environment: Evidence from Two Economically Lagging Provinces of South Africa.
- Authors
Rogerson, Christian M.
- Abstract
The improvement of local business environments in order to provide more favorable conditions for private sector development represents a critical policy intervention for strengthening local economic development planning. This article reports the findings of a participatory assessment tool which was developed to assess changes in the business environment between 2006 and 2009 for 16 local municipalities in South Africa's Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga provinces. It is shown that while a general improvement is recorded in the overall quality of local business environments across surveyed municipalities, in many cases the improvement is marginal. This points to a need for sustained intervention and support in order to achieve necessary improvements in the local business environments within these two poor provinces of South Africa.
- Subjects
EASTERN Cape (South Africa); MPUMALANGA (South Africa); SOUTH Africa; ECONOMIC development; PRIVATE sector; BUSINESS enterprises; SOUTH African economy
- Publication
Urban Forum, 2010, Vol 21, Issue 4, p349
- ISSN
1015-3802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12132-010-9099-0