The Facilitative Role of Institutions in Poverty Reduction

Abstract

The constitutional requirements for the South African municipalities to adopt a developmental character and implement policies of local economic development present a favourable institutional framework to provide rural people with opportunities to engage in entrepreneurial activities. This chapter explores specific measures to exploit the tourism-based economy to benefit the local people adjacent to conservation areas. Using literature, the chapter first presents a brief historical background to socio-economic conditions around the land question in South Africa. Secondly it presents strategies to combat in particular unemployment, and then finally discusses the present as well as the possible future constraints that people face and are likely to face in these areas. This chapter then explores specific measures to exploit the tourism-based economy to benefit the local people adjacent to conservation areas. It finally discusses the present as well as the possible future constraints that people face and are likely to face in these areas.