- Title
- An assessment of the impact of local economic development on urban poverty alleviation: a case of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
- Creator
- Mbeba, Roland D
- Subject
- Poverty -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Economic development projects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Poverty -- Government policy -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Poor -- Services for -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Sustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Municipal government -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Strategic planning -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Soc Sc (Dev)
- Identifier
- vital:11424
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/548
- Identifier
- Poverty -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Economic development projects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Poverty -- Government policy -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Poor -- Services for -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Sustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Municipal government -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Strategic planning -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description
- Local Economic Development has in recent years, gained wide spread acceptance, as a locality-based response to economic challenges. It is now firmly on the agenda of many national and local government and key international agencies. Adopting a desk study approach, reviewing extensive literature on LED, the study sought to establish the impact of LED strategy employed by Buffalo City Municipality, and assess the extent to which it has alleviated poverty. The study shows that the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCMM) LED strategy has limited impact on poverty alleviation due to a myriad of factors, which reinforce and interact with each other thereby limiting development and trapping residents in poverty. The thesis argues that there is significant room for a paradigm shift from predominantly pro-growth to pro-poor LED, and the need to adopt a comprehensive LED strategy that seeks to include of both pro-growth and pro-poor strategies. Both cannot operate without the other in the bid to promote development in Buffalo City, mainly with Agriculture, Tourism, and SMME having significant potential to bring about local economic development. Moreover, the promotion of Private-Public Partnerships play an integral role in the socio-economic development of Buffalo City, and more so the participation of local people is even more fundamental, which will give them the opportunity to take charge of their own development. Therefore, the study suggests a new LED agenda, which is pro-poor, holistic, and moves away from ‘piecemeal’ project based LED activities, and adopts comprehensive economic programmes so that LED has significant impact on poverty alleviation.
- Format
- 179 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management & Commerce
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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