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    Potential for a South African aquaculture industry on the Northern Cape’s Namaqualand Coast

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    The question of land-use is likely to remain a stumbling block for potential fish farmers because access to coastal land will continue to pose a formidable obstacle. This is because most coastal land has been zoned, plus the land that suits aquaculture is often also desirable for high-class private dwellings.
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    Governance and governability: wWhat are the challenges for an inclusive city?

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    In discussing the relationship between governance and inclusivity this paper’s central argument is that unless there is an ability to build a responsive government at all spheres than there is no connection between the two. The ability of the state to respond to the citizenry requires that it can match the supply of goods and services to their political, social, and economic demands.
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    Transport and the urban poor

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    he aim of the paper is to articulate necessary state interventions to improve transport services for the urban poor in South Africa. The paper forms part of a larger study intended to inform a strategic response to the challenges of the “second economy” in the South African urban areas.
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    Challenges of inclusive cities: making urban spaces and places for all

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    This paper looks at the duality of urban contexts in South Africa that is of unprecedented opulence on the one hand and remarkable deprivation on the other.
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    The state of land use management in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    In contemporary South Africa, land use management may be considered to be a crucial, but weak link in the transformative project attempted by the overall land management system, and planning activity in general. Land use management is increasingly recognised to have been a neglected area of engagement, and this neglect has had significant consequences.
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    Creating access to economic opportunities in small and medium sized towns

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Small towns are now seen as a necessary and important link to the development of rural regions, and the role of small towns as service centres, within a hierarchy of settlements, is emphasised. However, whereas the focus in the 1960s was on large-scale infrastructural projects, the new approach is to focus on developing local initiatives and resources for local development.
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    Development of the urban development component for a second economy strategy: overview analysis

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Both in research and in practice there have been many ideas and interventions aimed at restructuring cities. In South Africa various programmes have been implemented to combat apartheid city form and address the needs of the urban poor. Amongst these the big projects and flagship programmes have had considerable success.
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    Employment intermediation for unskilled and low-skilled work seekers - part 1: overview of the Sector

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa. Growth has been inadequate, the skills level requirement of new jobs is continually rising, current skills among the workforce are low and inadequate numbers of low end, unskilled jobs are being created.
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    Missing the trget: business development support to the second economy

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    The second economy refers to the people who are in a marginalised relationship to the mainstream economy. There is a complex but interrelated link between the second and the first economy which needs to be understood.
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    Income and non-income inequality in post-apartheid South Africa: what are the drivers and possible policy interventions?

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2009
    In South Africa, people with access to wealth experience the country as a developed modern economy, while the poorest still struggle to access even the most basic services.

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