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Select Competition Issues arising from changes in the Distribution of Pharmaceutical Products in South Africa

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation Development Policy Research Unit, UCT
  • Author(s) Trudi Hartzenberg
Significant changes have taken place in the distribution stage of the pharmaceutical supply chain in the South Africa during the past decade. These have led to a series of complaints and applications for interim relief to the competition authorities. The Competition Tribunal has delivered some judgements that have been in…
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Liberalisation, Regulation and Provision: The Implications of Compliance with International Norms for the South African Financial Sector

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation FEASibility (Pty) Ltd
  • Author(s) Penelope Hawkins
The South African financial sector, described here as the banking, insurance and securities industries, is a sophisticated enclave within widespread financial exclusion. The financial sector is generally regarded as stable and well regulated; indeed it is to the latter that the robustness of the sector has been attributed, in the…
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Promoting Competitive Outcomes in the Fixed Line Telecommunications Sector in South Africa

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation University of Cape Town
  • Author(s) James Hodge
The South African telecommunications sector began its liberalisation path in the early 1990s with the opening of the VANS, customer premises equipment and mobile telephony sectors. However, for fixed line services the government opted for selling an equity stake to a foreign consortium and granting the incumbent an exclusive monopoly…
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Towards a better understanding of the ICT sector in south africa

  • Year 2001
  • Author(s) Tina James;Philip Esselaar;Dr. Jonathan Miller
The purpose of this paper is to present a broad overview of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry in South Africa, based on available secondary sources. Because of the nature of the information economy and the requirements for high-level human resources in this sector, the paper also presents an…
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An Examination of the Impact of Financial Deepening on Long-Run Economic Growth: An Application of a VECM Structure to a Middle- Income Country Context

  • Year 2001
  • Author(s) Chandana Kularatne
The paper examines the impact of financial deepening on long run economic growth in South Africa over the period 1954-92. Two models are developed using the Johansen VECM structure. The first model investigates whether the financial system has a direct or indirect effect on per capita output via the investment…
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Policies to Promote Growth and Employment in South Africa

  • Year 2001
  • Author(s) Jeffrey D. Lewis
This study is published by the World Bank in its informal series of Discussion Papers on the South African Economy. It draws on research supported by discussions and interaction with staff from a wide range of South African institutions. Since 1994, South Africa has made undeniable progress across a number…
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Explaining Long-Run Growth in South Africa And OECD Countries: Implications for the Rest of SADC Countries

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation National Institute for Economic Policy (NIEP)
  • Author(s) Kevin Nell
This paper tests a 'generalised' version of Thirlwall's balance-of-payments (BOP) constrained growth model by examining the existence of a long-run relation between the output growth rates of OECD countries, South Africa and the rest of the Southern African Development Community (RSADC). Although the policy implications of the study are not…
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Information Technology and Producer Services A Source of Economic Development: The South African Case

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation SNF
  • Author(s) Hildegunn Kyvik NordÃ¥s
This paper discusses one aspect of the by now somewhat discredited 'new economy', namely the impact of information and communication technology on the growth in volume and diversity of producer services. It provides an analysis of data on developments within transport, communication, finance and business services in South Africa and…
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Technology Dissemination and Economic Growth: Some Lessons for the New Economy

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation LSE Economics Department
  • Author(s) Danny Quah
Because the New Economy is so intertwined with Information and Communications Technology, we are primed to think of New Economy developments as nothing more than technology-driven, productivity improving changes on the supply side. We then want New Economy developments to do what all technical progress has historically done. And we…
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The Export Behaviour of South African Manufacturing Firms

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation Centre for the Study of African Economies, Univers...
  • Author(s) Neil Rankin
This paper presents results based on a recent South African firm-level survey. It examines the export behaviour of South African manufacturing firms, it attempts to characterise the decision to export and it also considers the destination of exports. We find the following: 71% of South African firms export. These firms…
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The Level And Variation Of Tariff Rates: An Analysis Of Nominal And Effective Tariff Rates In South Africa For The Years 2000 And 2001

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
  • Author(s) Dirk Ernst van Seventer
This note presents a first cut at analysing the tariff schedule that is applied to South African imports. The aim is to show various ways in which tariffs on South African imports can be analysed such that DTI can develop in-house capacity to undertake such analysis on an on-going basis.…
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The Internationalization Of The South African Telecommunications Sector

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation School of Economic and Business Sciences, WITS
  • Author(s) Milton Taka
South Africa's telecommunications sector is the largest in Africa by important measures, including number of fixed lines, number of cellular subscribers, technological capability, equipment design, manufacturing capabilities, financial revenues, investment and data service users. There has also been substantial and increasing international participation alongside the linked processes of privatization and…
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Competition Policy and SMEs: The Case of Denmark Within the European Union

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation Danish Federation of Small and Medium-sized Enterp...
  • Author(s) Peter L. Vesterdorf
The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the ways in which EU competition policy and specifically Danish competition policy1, aim to protect the interests of not only private consumers, but also small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As a point of departure it is useful to mention that the individual…
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Monday, 01 January 2001

A Future for Labour in the Global Economy

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Samuel Bowles
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
From the standpoint of labor around the world the problem with globalization is not that it lowers market-determined wages and reduces employment - it is as likely to do the opposite, and which it does will vary from country to country. The more general problem is that labor depend on…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Service Sector Dynamics and Service Regulation

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation DIIW
  • Author(s) Brigitte Preissl
  • Countries and Regions European Union (EU)
In most industrialised economies, service sectors do not only show high growth rates of output and employment : they also go through dramatic changes with respect to use of technology, innovation, and regulatory frameworks. Service sector performance becomes more and more important for the competitiveness of national economies. However, not…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Failing or Not Aiming to Grow? Manufacturing SMMEs and their Contribution to Employment Growth in South Africa

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Anna Kesper
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa’s recent integration into the world economy provokes the question about its potential for building competitive advantage and prosperity at the local level in the context of an increasingly globalised economy. The experience of prospering localities in industrialised countries, in particular Western Europe and Japan, suggests that the small…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Trade In Transport Services: South Africa And The General Agreement On Trade In Services

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Willem Naude
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This document has been prepared for the Trade and Industrial Policy Secretariat (TIPS) in light of the imperative for South Africa to prepare its negotiating mandate at the discussions around the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) that commences in the year 2000. The GATS…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Individual, Household and Regional Determinants of Labour Force Attachment in South Africa: Evidence from the 1997 October House

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Taryn Dinkelman; Farah Pirouz
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
A narrow unemployment rate of 21.2% and a broad unemployment rate of 36% in 1997 in South Africa indicate a substantial number of working age people who did not work in the last seven days but would accept a job even though they were not actively searching for work. Under…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Import Performance and Import Demand Functions for South Africa

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Vusi Gumede
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
It is generally acknowledged that there is no sufficient, exhaustive and elaborate empirical examination of the quantitative impact of policies pertaining to import demand and economic growth in South Africa. In order to arrive at conclusive, sagacious and applicable policies on the economic growth potential of an economy, it is…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Endogenous Protection in a Trade Liberalising Economy: The Case of South Africa

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Merle Holden; Daniela Casale
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The paper aimed to establish the changes that had occurred in the institutional structures governing trade policy in South Africa during the period 1990-1998. It also examined the forces that had influenced the application of tariff policy by the major tariff setting bodies by applying various theories of endogenous protection…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

FTAs with India and Brazil: An Initial Analysis

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Matthew Stern; Christopher Stevens
  • Countries and Regions Brazil, India
The purpose of this report is to launch a debate on the proposed free trade agreements (FTAs) with Brazil and India by providing some preliminary analysis. Two different but complementary research methodologies have been employed, each of which provides a different perspective on the possible impact of these agreements.
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Competition and Market Structure in the Plastics Sector: A Preliminary Analysis

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation WITS
  • Author(s) Chris Malikane; Simon Roberts
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The South African Competition Act of 1998, implemented on 1 September 1999, establishes a range of criteria for evaluating mergers and company practices that are deemed to harm economic efficiency, among other objectives. In particular, the Act prohibits a range of practices if the firm is ‘dominant’, including charging an…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Determinants Of Investment In South Africa: A Sectoral Approach

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) TIPS
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Low investment levels in the South African economy are consistently identified as the principal factor behind suboptimal growth rates. Despite the increasing recognition of the importance of investment there is relatively little analytical research available in South Africa on the determinants of investment behaviour, specifically at the sectoral level. It…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Production and Technology Changes, Restructuring, and Employment in the Plastics Sector

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Chris Malikane; Simon Roberts
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The paper utilises data from a survey of plastics firms and six firm case studies to examine the relationships between production and technology changes, and employment. The analysis examines associations between different factors influencing firms in making such changes and firm performance. These factors include trade liberalisation and the export…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

South Africa's International Cost Competitiveness

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Stephen Golub
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The purpose of this paper is to assess South Africa’s international price and cost competitiveness, particularly with regard to labor costs, and to examine the quantitative relationships between South African cost competitiveness and tradeperformance. South African export and investment performance improved markedly during the 1990s, particularly the post-1994 period, coinciding…
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The Macro Implications of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

  • Year 2000
  • Author(s) Channing Arndt; Jeff Lewis
In this paper, we report on the preliminary results from an analysis of the macro impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. We have constructed an economywide simulation model that embodies the important structural features of the South African economy, into which we have added major impact channels of the HIV/AIDS…
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The Employment Problem in South Africa

  • Year 2000
  • Author(s) Gary Fields
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Trends in Employment and the Employment Elasticity in Manufacturing 1971-1992: an International Comparison

  • Year 2000
  • Author(s) Dipak Mazumdar
The growth of employment in the manufacturing sector has been an important issue in development economics for a long time. Employment growth is, of course, limited by output growth in this sector, but the elasticity of employment with respect to output has varied widely in different regions and economies. This…
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The Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa

  • Year 2000
  • Author(s) Geeta Kingdon and John Knight
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Effects of Fiscal, Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy on the Structure of South African Growth and Employment

  • Year 2000
  • Author(s) Dirck Stryker; Balakanapathy Rajaratnam
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