Thank you very much indeed Comrade Xoli! This is the kind of thing that we need right now, and thanks for not being shy about it!
I would like to use your document the day after tomorrow, to go out to the Communist University together with the SA Government Green Paper on National Strategic Planning. Right or wrong, the first difficulty with any of these documents is to read and digest them, and it really helps to have other material to contrast and compare. You have done a groundbreaking job, comrade. So, I would be grateful if you would let me have an MS-Word version of this document, sent to me at [email protected] as an attachment. With best wishes, VC 2009/10/6 Xoli Dlabantu <[email protected]> > > Dear Cde Dominic, > Whilst I'm preparing a response to the article you sent me, allow me > to forward to you a discussion document that I presented to a party > branch meeting with a view that it would be developed to a fully > fledged green paper on an alternative economic policy document. > > I wouldn't mind if it would be thrown to the discussion group for > critical analysis. Let me frankly say that I wouldn't appreciate any > pat on the back but a robust and vibrant debate on the issued that I > raised. > > Comradely regards, > Xoli > > > > > > > > National Integrated Development Strategy (NIDS): An Ingredients > Approach to economic development. > > > NB: This is but a kernel draft. Sectoral policies as well as policy > co-ordination components have been omitted. > > Foreword > > South Africa is in a strategic inflection point. It is either we > achieve a strategic breakthrough that will see us attaining the true > objectives that are enshrined in the Freedom Charter or we continue > with maintain the Colonialism of a Special Type (CST) development > path. The economic model that will be adopted from now henceforth > whether it be the neo-classical Gear or the herein proposed > developmental NIDS will be the key in determining the economic trends > for the decades to come. “It is now, or never”. > South Africa is a capital-poor country as regards as regards both the > supply of capital goods and means to finance additions to the capital > stock. Many capital goods such as heavy or specialized machinery and > equipment, cannot be manufactured locally, and therefore have to be > imported. > Our future performance will depend largely on the ability to reduce > country’s dependence on imported capital goods and services, the > export performance, the level of access to international financing and > direct foreign investment on Rural Development at the least. > Table.1 gives a comparison between the Neo-classical Gear or the > developmental NIDS. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Table1: Comparing the NIDS Recommendation with Gear. > > > NIDS Recommendation Gear > 1. Agriculture and rural development > 2. Infrastructure > 3. Priority production system (selective industrial policy) > 4. Continental development strategy > 5. Poverty alleviation > 6. Environment protection > 7. Human resources and education > 8. Health and medical care > 9. Women in development > > Gear > 1. Fiscal discipline > 2. Political expenditure priorities > 3. Tax reform > 4. Financial liberalization > 5. Exchange rates equalization > 6. Trade liberalization > 7. Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization > 8. Privatization > 9. Deregulation > > > -- Blog at: http://domza.blogspot.com/ Communist University web site at: http://amadlandawonye.wikispaces.com/ Subscribe for free e-mail updates at: http://groups.google.com/group/Communist-University/ Library of documents (CU "CD") at: http://cu.domza.net/ [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
