What is really meant by 'development' in twenty-first-century post-apartheid South Africa? What are the challenges and complexities of real transformation in this context? The contributions in this title address the ways in which people in all sectors of South African society are confronting its...

This paper served as a background paper to the European Report on Development 2011/2012: Confronting scarcity: Managing water, energy and land for inclusive and sustainable growth. The European Report on Development was prepared by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in partnership with the...

Es besteht von wissenschaftlicher Seite aus weitgehend der Konsens, dass grundle-gende demokratische Entscheidungen eines Staates effizienter durchgesetzt werden können, wenn, analog zum politischen föderalen Bereich, auch ökonomisch dezent-rale Freiheits- und Entscheidungsstrukturen...