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Good Hope Plan / regional development strategy documents

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Producer Department of Foreign Affairs and Information
Coverage 1981-1982
Works using it 4

Debates

Debate Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 4
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 2

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
McCarthy (1982) Good Hope Plan for Southern Africa (summary of proceedings of meeting between Prime Minister and business/community leaders, Cape Town, 12 November 1981) 1981 Source for the stated objectives of regional policy, the new regional approach, incentive differentiation favouring the black states, and the 'co-operation' concept.
McCarthy (1982) The Promotion of Industrial Development: An Element of a Co-ordinated Regional Development Strategy for Southern Africa (Information Newsletter), 1982 1982 Primary policy document used to describe the new strategy's growth points, incentives, small-enterprise emphasis and the admission that overconcentration applies only to the PWV area.
Pickles (1988a) A Regional Development Strategy for Southern Africa (Good Hope Plan), 1981 1981 Quoted to show the conception of development regions as functionally integrated areas spanning homelands and independent states.
Pickles (1988b) A Regional Development Strategy for Southern Africa (Good Hope Plan), 1981 1981 Quoted to show that the development regions are conceived as functional regions crossing political boundaries.
Tomlinson and Addleson (1986) 1982 decentralization concession package documents (Dept of Foreign Affairs and Information 1982a, 1982b) 1982 Describes the content of the 1982 incentive package (cash grants, long-term and short-term incentives).