Globalization and the South African Transformation

The Impact on Social Policy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5117130
AutoresZine Magubane (autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume49
Fascículo4
Páginas88-110
Data de publicação2002-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrica Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978
EditoraIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/at.2003.0045
OpenAlexW4241894781
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas6

In analyzing the ANC's postapartheid macroeconomic and industrial policies alongside ideologies about the role of states and markets in fostering developmental goals, this paper argues that globalization has had a profound impact on the social policies adopted by the postapartheid state. The impact of globalization has occurred not simply at the level of macroeconomic policy, but also at the level of ideology. When the postapartheid state introduced industrial and macroeconomic reforms designed to attract investment from outside of South Africa's borders, it adopted a way of conceptualizing the relationship between the state, the market, and the global economy that reinforces the hegemony of capitalist globalization. These reforms threaten to entrench apartheid's bitter economic legacy of white development and black underdevelopment

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