Abstract
M.Com. (Business Management)
Southern Africa, when viewed in the context of a
developing region, is an area of extremes. Sophisticated urban
development, financial markets, agricultural development
and technically-advanced production processes form a direct
contrast to the squatting, subsistence agriculture, malnutrition
and unemployment found in a single complex
Southern Africa socio-economic environment.
The most important goal of economic development in Southern
Africa is the raising of the standard of living of the entire
population. The interests and needs of the individual
play a prominent role in this pre-determined goal. The
results that are obtained in this process are largely determined
by the element of planning. In the planning stage, vision
and insight need to be displayed to determine the anticipated
end results. The availability of current information
is the basis on which any real action, in the attempt
to achieve the aforementioned objective, will depend.
The purpose of this study was to compile a macro-economic
information framework for development planning and to illustrate
this framework with an example.