The prospects for industrialisation in the new South Africa : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University
- Authors: Bell, Robert Trevor
- Date: 1990-10-17
- Subjects: South Africa -- Industries , South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1961-1991 , South Africa -- Economic conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:597 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020666 , ISBN 0868102121
- Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1990-10-17
Government policy and industrial location in South Africa
- Authors: Bell, Robert Trevor
- Date: 1968
- Subjects: South Africa -- Industries -- Location Industrial relations -- Government policy -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:1079 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009507
- Description: Governments, naturally, pursue social and political as well as economic objectives. The degree to which economic and non-economic objectives harmonise with one another without government interference, however, obviously varies a good deal according to time and place. For instance in the nineteenth century, the priorities of British governments made possible a high degree of individual freedom in the economic sphere. This century, however, as Robbins suggests, has seen a great extension of state activity in the economic sphere, for both economic and non-economic reasons. This tendency, then, is not peculiar to South Africa, but the border industries policy, largely because of its ideological associations and the degree of intervention which it seems to imply, is a particularly controversial example. Chapter 1 para 2.
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- Date Issued: 1968