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Title: | Government Policy and Economic Dualism in South Africa |
Author: | Madavo, Callisto E. |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 19-32 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | dual economy apartheid Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/484048 |
Abstract: | The persistance of the gap in South Africa between the economy of the white dominated modern sector and that of the African Reserves or 'homelands' is due to many factors among which are the plethora of market imperfections found in the modern economy, migratory labour and the initial socio-cultural differences between the whites and those A-fricans resident in the Reserves. By reinforcing these factors instead of mitigating them, government policy has played a crucial role in perpetuating dualism in South Africa. This policy is examined. After a summary of the main elements of the racial policy before and after 1948, the economic policies that resulted are traced and their impact on the modern and Reserve economies is analyzed. Ref. |