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TIPS Forum 2008: South Africaās Economic Miracle ā Has the Emperor Lost His Clothes? (36)
- Year 2008
- Author(s) Chris Williams, Niel van Zyl
The systematic failure of post-settlement support in South African land reform has been identified as a major contributing variable to the approximated 50 percent failure rate of new land reform projects. In spite of this dismal record, government increasingly finds itself under immense political pressure to speed up land reform…
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- Williams__Van_Zyl_24_Oct_2008.pdf (3445 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
- Author(s) Michael Wild, Oliver Schwank
- Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa has a peculiar industrial structure given its factor endowments: production is capital intensive in sectors and concentrated in capital intensive sectors despite an abundance of unskilled labour. Part of the reason for this phenomenon lies in the development process of South African industry: it grew around the mining…
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- Schwank_&_Wild_linkages_an_svar_approach_24_Oct_2008.pdf (0 Downloads)
- Schwank__Wild_linkages_an_svar_approach_24_Oct_2008_1.pdf (2852 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Author(s) Mmatlou Kalaba
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
The drive towards SADC trade liberalisation is a goal that is emphasised in most documents of the SADC Secretariat, including the protocol on trade and the regional indicative strategic development plan (RISDP). This trade liberalisation aims to deepen regional integration through increased intra-trade between SADC member states, which was to…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Faculty of economic and management sciences, University of the Western Cape
- Author(s) Douglas Blackmur
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The trend towards the Regulatory State. It has been argued that: 'A fundamental driver of the demand for regulation in recent years has been increasing 'risk aversion' in many spheres of life. Regulation has come to be seen as a panacea for many of society's ills and as a means…
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- Blackmur_24_Oct_2008.pdf (2352 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Author(s) Cornel Van Basten
- Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa is in its infancy regarding independent economic regulation of network utilities. Although economic regulation of public utilities have been exercised in South Africa for a number of years (usually by the line Government Department), the establishment of independent economic regulation had only emerged a little more than ten…
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- CV_Basten24_October_2008_1.pdf (3012 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Author(s) Leroi Raputsoane
- Countries and Regions Asia, European Union (EU), Mercosur (Common Market of the South)
This paper examines the volatility spillovers between the South African currency and the currencies of selected markets in developed and emerging Europe as well as Asia and Latin America. Additionally, the exchange rate volatility spillovers are examined over one year window samples to determine the evolution of volatility spillovers between…
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- Leroi_Exchange_rate_volatility_spillovers-24_Oct_2008.pdf (2875 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Author(s) Lauren Royston
- Countries and Regions South Africa
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- Royston_24_Oct_2008__tmp4f22febe.pdf (3082 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Author(s) Glen Robbins
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The South Africa that emerged from the 1994 democratic elections was one characterised by widespread poverty and inequality with an economy that was suffering the effects of macro-economic mismanagement. The root causes of these problems were seen to have originated from within the distorted policies of a highly centralised apartheid…
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- Think_piece_-_Robbins_Glen.pdf (2500 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Development Bank of Southern Africa
- Author(s) MariƩ Kirsten;Glynn Davies
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The South African government has begun to speed up the delivery of infrastructure. This policy shift is in line with its aim to halve poverty and unemployment by 2014, achievable if the economy grows at an average rate of 6 per cent by 2010. The government was able to demonstrate…
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- Infrastructure_Investment-led_Policy_Scenarios_of_SA.pdf (3330 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Author(s) Eric Makoni
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The making of a 'new' South Africa has not been without its challenges. After the political miracle of 1994, political actors, policy-makers and academics had to transform repressive and apartheid predatory political machinery into a functional and inclusive and democratised polity. Inebriated by the euphoria of a newly found democracy,…
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- Eric_Makoni_24_Oct_2008.pdf (5172 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
- Author(s) Oliver Schwank;Michael Wild
- Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa has a peculiar industrial structure given its factor endowments: production is capital intensive in sectors and concentrated in capital intensive sectors despite an abundance of unskilled labour. Part of the reason for this phenomenon lies in the development process of South African industry: it grew around the mining…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Author(s) Vanessa Tang
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Industrial Development Zones (IDZs) have been and still are important vehicles used by developing countries to facilitate investments, create jobs and boost exports. The attractiveness of IDZs is characterized primarily by their association with the adjacent location of an airport or port, good basic infrastructure and duty-free imports of production-related…
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- Tang_Final_Zoning_in_on_SAfrica_IDZs_24_Oct_2008.pdf (4717 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Development Network Africa
- Author(s) Frank Flatters;Matthew Stern
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The future direction of South African industrial policy is the subject of vigorous and healthy debate. The outcome is important for the country's economic development. This study is an attempt to contribute to these discussions through an overview of and some questions about the economic impacts of South Africa's post…
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- Royston_24_Oct_2008.pdf (3224 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation Polytechnic University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
- Author(s) Juan Carlos Neri GuzmƔn
- Countries and Regions Mercosur (Common Market of the South)
This document has the objective to determine and to analyze the economic vocation of the ten main cities in Mexico, it with the purpose to identify areas of opportunity for the implementation of policies of industrial clusters as a measure to increase the productivity in the country. From the decade…
- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Kwazulu-Natal
- Author(s) Marcel Kohler
- Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa's energy system has been, and still is, one of the key contributing factors to the social and economic development of the nation. By international standards, the South African economy is very energy-intensive, meaning that the country uses a large amount of energy for every rand of economic output.…
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- Kohler_24_Oct_2008_v2__tmp59255f01.pdf (3266 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Johannesburg
- Author(s) Talita Dalton-Greyling
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The world's interest in forced displacement, including refugees and forced migrants has increased considerably during the last decades as the number of people displaced became a global concern. At the end of 2005, the global figure of "persons of concernĀ" to the United Nations Higher Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) stood…
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- Dalton_Greyling_Refugees_24_Oct_2008.pdf (3659 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Kate Philip
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The paper will explore the assumptions and analysis informing the drafting of a second economy strategy, a process that has been underway under the auspices of The Second Economy Strategy Project: an initiative of the Presidency, based at TIPS. The paper will argue that the concept of 'the second economy'…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of the Free State
- Author(s) Antonie Pool
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Democracy opened the door for transformation in South Africa. In the past decade, various laws, policies and programmes have been implemented with the aim of putting into effect the principles of the new South African Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with the aim of improving the lives of the…
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- Pool_TIPS2008.pdf (2592 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation YENEPAD
- Author(s) Alain Ndedi
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Colonialism and the deleterious impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and now globalisation. Some parts of postcolonial Africa have attempted to set up ministries of economic development. Others have concentrated on attracting on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) whilst some others have early on realised that the state and private capital…
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- rethinking_economic_growth.pdf (2443 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation Orkestra, Basque Institute of Competitiveness
- Author(s) James Wilson
There are fundamental links between academic treatments of 'economic development' and of the popular policy discourse of 'competitiveness'. Productivity-focused analyses of competitiveness are inherently related to market-centric analyses of development that have economic growth as their objective. However, a consensus is emerging on the need for broader conceptions of economic…
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- Territorial competitiveness and development policy (2536 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation South African Reserve Bank
- Author(s) Siobhan Redford
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a relationship between export volumes and exchange rate volatility exists as suggested in the ASGISA document. It goes about this by first investigating the theoretical channels that predict the relationship between export volumes and exchange rate volatility. The theoretical prediction though,…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Pretoria and Tilburg University
- Author(s) E. Schaling
- Countries and Regions South Africa
In this paper we analyze the relationships between exchange rates, inflation and competitiveness. We show that over the 1994-2006 sample period real exchange rate depreciations did not improve the trade balance and therefore had no positive effect on growth. One reason is that SA exports are priced to market (PTM…
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- Forum08_Schaling_Reducing_exchange_rate_volatility_UP.pdf (2849 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation University of the Free State
- Author(s) M. Marinkov;P. Burger
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Formal inflation targeting has been adopted as the monetary policy framework in South Africa since February 2000. Prior to that (since about 1990), the South African Reserve Bank has pursued implicit inflation targeting with no officially announced inflation target. Official inflation targeting frameworks are based on the premise that inflation…
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- BurgerMarinkov_Tips.pdf (4224 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Cape Town and Deloitte Consulting
- Author(s) Chandana Kularatne; Roy Haveman
- Countries and Regions South Africa
To better understand why some currencies are more volatile than others, this paper considers the cross-country determinants of exchange rate volatility for a set of middle-income countries. Overall, the paper finds that higher levels of reserves reduce volatility, and it is estimated that an appropriate level of reserves is approximately…
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- Kalaratne_Havemann_Volatile_Currency_24_Oct_2008.pdf (3125 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation South African Reserve Bank
- Author(s) L. Rangasamy;J. Jakoet
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The key objective of this paper is to construct a commodity export price series for South Africa (incorporating a wider range of commodities than those considered in the empirical literature on South Africa to date) and to determine its influence on real exchange rate movements in South Africa. Existing models…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Stellenbosch
- Author(s) Rachel Jafta;Willem Boshoff
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The ASGISA document identifies several binding constraints preventing South Africa from achieving elevated levels of economic growth (Republic of South Africa, 2006). This paper takes an evolutionary perspective to consider whether the proposed policy interventions will address what is, arguably, a fundamental growth constraint: the current inability of the economic…
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- TipsforumJaftaenBoshoff2008_edited.pdf (4726 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Free State
- Author(s) Frikkie Booysen
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The adverse micro- and macroeconomic impacts of the HIV and AIDS epidemic is relatively well documented. With the advent of the free provision of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in the public sector, the focus in research on the economics of HIV and AIDS has shifted toward determining how ART may ameliorate…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of the Witwatersrand
- Author(s) Gregory John Lee;Ralitza Dobreva
- Countries and Regions South Africa
One of the most pervasive trends in contemporary South African business is the substitution of alternative work forms for full-time, permanent employment. Part-time work and external contracting are used extensively by firms, ostensibly to adjust to altering work conditions. However, relatively little is understood about the process, context and contingencies…
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- Dobreva_Lee_Work_Allocation_24_Oct_2008.pdf (2478 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
- Author(s) Johan Fourie
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Trade-in-services is fast becoming one of the foremost areas of research and policy making in the international trade arena. Although the General Agreement on Trade-in-Services (GATS) was implemented in 1995, it is only recently, with the realisation of the close linkages between goods and service exports and the advent of…
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- Fourie_Travel_service_exports_SA_24_Oct_2008.pdf (3508 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Senior Research Manager, Centre for Employment, Poverty and Growth, HSRC.
- Author(s) Tim Hart
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper will review the attempts at fostering resource poor small-scale agricultural development in South Africa from 1994 to the present. Based on the lack of a concerted policy for support and development of this group of farmers and given the incomplete datasets about this group a number an attempt…
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- Hart_Paper_24_Oct_2008__tmp52aa50cf.pdf (3529 Downloads)