During the 1980s considerable attention was focused on the need to develop institutions to draw populations into development efforts. Local government was the recipient of much of this attention.
This study is concerned with the role of local government in development, and problems that are experienced in
playing a developmental tole.
In particular, it is concerned with international experience of local government as a development institution, and the relevance of that experience to SA. [No abstract provided. Information taken from introduction]
