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TIPS/DPRU Forum 2003: the challenge of Growth and Poverty – The South African Economy Since Democracy (40)

Changing ICT Sector in the SA Economy

  • Year 2003
  • Author(s) Esther Netshivhongweni
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
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Reducing Debt Costs to Support Growth and Investment in South Africa: The Currency Premium and Local Currency Denominated Debt

  • Year 2003
  • Author(s) Martin Grandes; Nicolas Pinaud; Marcel Peter
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
In this paper we aim at identifying the determinants of South African currency premia in order to assess the scope of South African economic policies to narrow the spread on local-currency denominated debt. South Africa is one among very few emerging economies able to borrow long-term abroad in its own…
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Capital Inflows since the End of Apartheid and the 2001 Currency Crisis

  • Year 2003
  • Author(s) Seeraj Mohammed
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
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Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Structural Change in the South African Economy: Pre and Post Independence Experience

  • Year 2003
  • Author(s) Thandinkosi Ndlela and Peter Nkala
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Since the attainment of independence in 1994 the new government in South Africa has adopted two outward looking development-oriented economic reform programmes, that is, the Reconstruction and Development Programme, (RDP) in 1994 and the Growth Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) strategies in 1996. RDP clearly outlined the broad framework of the…
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Unemployment And Aids: The Social-Democratic Challenge For South Africa

  • Year 2003
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
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Jobless or Job Creating Growth? Some Preliminary Thoughts

  • Year 2003
  • Author(s) Miriam Altman
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
From a policy perspective, employment depends on both economic growth and the labour absorption capacity of the economy. Policy must target both of these. Higher growth rates can be achieved through productivity improvements (technology, industry restructuring, improved know-how, etc.) and/or growth in domestic or foreign market demand. Higher growth rates…
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Sector Strategies for Employment Creation: Construction, Social Services and Food

  • Year 2003
  • Author(s) Miriam Altman; Marina Meyer
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
High and growing rates of unemployment have been a source of great frustration to policy-makers. Although exports have been buoyant and the 1990s has been the first decade of sustained growth, unemployment has been rising by 2 percentage points each year. If the expanded definition is used, the rate of…
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South African Households Integration into the Core Economy - Micro Level Covariates

  • Year 2003
  • Author(s) Stan Dieden
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
In this exploratory analysis of household survey data, households' main income sources are used indicators of integration into the South African core economy. Notwithstanding the country's high urbanization rates, the picture of household income generation which emerges is one that disputes common perceptions of the multitude of means by which…
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The Role for Competition Policy in Economic Development The South African Experience

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation University of the Witwatersrand
  • Author(s) Simon Roberts
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Competition policy is part of the new international orthodoxy in economic policy and, at the same time, was viewed in South Africa as a crucial element of economic transformation. This article reviews the role of competition policy in economic development and the experiences of developing countries such as Brazil and…
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The Determinants of HIV related Knowledge and Behaviours

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation Cornell University
  • Author(s) Peter Glick; David E. Sahn
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
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