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Basic needs development and democracy : a political economic model and application to the South African situation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1996) Booysen, Frederik Le Roux; Van der Berg, S.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences. Dept. of Economics.
The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented wave of democratisation with democratic elections being called for in countries across the globe. Although this trend had its origins in the more developed countries of Asia and eastern Europe during the late 1980s, it has in the 1990s also spread towards the developing world. Countries such Peru, Malawi, Zambia South Africa and the Philippines are but a few examples of developing countries which in recent years have reached out to embrace democracy. Despite this process of poilitical revival, however, poverty and destitution remain a reality in most of these developing countries. The challenge for these and other developing countries which may in the near future democratise is to succeed in establishing a democratic political economy within which democratic development will become a reality.