The Development of South African Policy Planning : A Qualitative Text Analysis

Mikhaylov, Slava

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: PLANNING;    POLICY PRIORITIES;    NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN;    DEVELOPMENT POLICY;    ECONOMIC GROWTH;   

RP-ID  :  127286

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The evolution of South Africa’sstrategic policy directions was analyzed through theapplication of natural language processing (NLP) techniquesto the texts of the Reconstruction and Development Plan,Growth, Employment And Redistribution, the Accelerated andShared Growth Initiative South Africa, the New Growth Path,and the National Development Plan. In statistical,probabilistic topic modeling analysis, nine topics areidentified across all development plans. In the decreasingorder of proportion of development plans’ documents, thetopics relate to: climate change and resources; greeneconomy; corruption and security; health; skills andtraining; economic growth; fiscal policy and macro-economy;reconstruction and democracy; and education. The study is abackground note for the South Africa Systematic Country Diagnostic.