Development,
Part 8b
Industrial
Policy Action Plan
On 18
February 2010 South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies
introduced “IPAP2” in a speech to the, National Assembly, now a 4-page document
(download linked below). Introducing the Plan, he wrote:
“As a country, South Africa has no alternative
to the course of action we propose. Manufacturing and other productive sectors
of the economy are the engines of long-term sustainable growth and job creation
in developing countries such as our own.”
The full 2010/11 – 2012/13 Industrial Policy Action Plan (4-part
PDF) is at:
This is the
Industrial Policy document that Polokwane promised.
Towards the
end of the introductory document Dr Davies writes
“It is estimated that the IPAP will result in
the creation of 2 477 000 direct and indirect decent jobs over the next ten
years. It will diversify and grow exports, improve the trade balance, build
long term industrial capability, grow our domestic technology and catalyse
skills development.”
This is the
kind of good work that puts empirical meaning into the term “developmental
state”.
Image: Dr Rob Davies. Cde Davies is also a
member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party.
- The above is to
introduce the original reading-text: National
Assembly Statement on IPAP2 by Dr Rob Davies, 2010.
- To download any of the CU courses in PDF files please click here.
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