Download or read book 7 Democratic Developmental States? Institutional - Structures for Incubating an Indigenous Entrepreneurial Class and Poverty Reduction in - Malaysia and South Africa written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even strong critics of the NEP such as Jesudason had hailed the scheme as a brilliant strategy that simultaneously kept the state managerial control of the companies, spread profit to the wider community, and held the shares in the hands of the Malays. [...] In fact, the parochial interests of the opposition parties largely accounted more the continued dominance of the ANC in South African politics than the reported silencing of the opposition by the ANC. [...] Rather than enhance the performance of the bureaucrats, the NPM strategy reduced the espirit de corps among the bureaucrats in South Africa, which, in turn, contributed to the inability of the state to address its fundamental development challenges, particularly the reduction of the high levels of poverty in the country. [...] Edigheji.pmd 26/04/2012, 18:04121 The Feasibility of the Democratic Developmental State in the South122 The primary aims of the consultative structures were to gain the confidence of the domestic and external investment communities, to generate trust between members and the state, and to enable members to make inputs into government policies, to enhance the legitimacy of the policy process, to fac. [...] In essence, the level of embeddedness of the state can be partly understood in the context of the decline of racial factor among the emerging political elites and business groups, and white business's lack of trust for the state in the post- apartheid South Africa.