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Aliber, M. & Makomane, C. (2006) Poverty trends and poverty reduction in South Africa. (Commissioned by OPMAC to assist with a report to the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, June).
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This report provides an overview of South Africa's poverty reduction framework. It summarises what is known (or not known) about inequality trends in South Africa. It aslo summarises findings/arguments from other studies as to the relationship between poverty and inequality and economic growth in South Africa. Finally, it sketches an overview of the impact donor and NGO development initiative .
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Altman, M. (2010) Promoting economic development & capacity through procurement. (Paper presented to the 3rd Annual Tshwane International Trade and Infrastructure Investment Conference, CSIR ICC, 24 May).
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Altman, M. (2009) Employment in the development path. (Paper presented to the Department of Trade and Industry, 13 July).
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Altman, M., Mather, A., Fleming, D. & Harris, H. (2009) The impact of electricity price increases and rationing on the South African economy: potential energy savings: a review by sector: a review of potential incentives for promoting energy efficiency. (February).
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Altman, M. (2006) Low wage work in South Africa. (Paper presented to IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment & Development, Berlin, Germany, 25 - 27 May).
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This paper offers some initial thoughts about the emerging character of the `working poor? in South Africa, and the implications for economic policy. The theme is particularly relevant for economies whose cost structures are not well aligned to promoting meaningful economic participation.
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Altman, M. (2004) Leveraging services for growth, employment and equity. Sisebenza Sonke. 3(2):1-22.
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South Africa has become a services economy. About 70% of GDP and 67% of total employment was generated by services in 2002. Critically, the services sector is growing faster than the primary or secondary sectors. Services grew by an average 3% per annum between 1994 and 2001, against an annual average of 2.4 % for the entire economy.
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Altman, M. (2003) Jobless or job creating growth?: some preliminary thoughts. (Paper presented at the TIPS/DPRU Annual Forum, 8-10 September).
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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 are difficult to achieve, and do not ...
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Blankley, W., Scerri, M., Molotja, N. & Saloojee, I. (eds). (2006) Measuring innovation in OECD and non-OECD countries: selected seminar papers. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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It is widely accepted that innovation is key to economic growth. Countries where research and innovation are high on the national agenda are best suited to prosper in the knowledge-based economy. Conversely, countries whose economies are mainly dependent on natural resources and basic industries tend to lack competitiveness and flexibility in adapting to changing global trends. The Organisation...
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Blankley, W.O. & Booyens, I. (2010) Building a knowledge economy in South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 106(11/12):Online.
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Over the past two decades the economies of leading countries have increasingly evolved into knowledge-based economies, relying less on traditional resources such as capital and labour for wealth creation and growth. It is generally accepted that the creation of new knowledge, innovation and technological change drive progress in such countries. Economic activities based on new knowledge stimula...
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Bloch, G., Chisholm, L., Fleisch, B. & Mabizela, M. (eds). (2008) Investment choices for South African education. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
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Investment Choices for South African Education was conceived between 2003 and 2007, the heady days of high economic growth in South Africa. However, since 2008, the heady days of high economic growth in South Africa. However, since 2008, new trends have been set in motion by global economic slowdown. The threat of slower growth compounded by the brake that South Africa's earlier under-investmen...
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Bouare, O., Tlabela, K.R.U., Struwig, J. & Langa, G.Z. (2001) The impact of economic globalisation on the South African auto industry. (Funded by a parliamentary grant).
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Chisholm, L. (2008) Economic growth and curriculum reform in southern Africa. NORRAG news. 40:62-64.
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This paper focuses on the adoption of learner-centred education as a major curriculum innovation to address political and economic goals in the 1990s in southern Africa. It argues that sustainability has been far from the centre of concern despite statements to the contrary within either national curricular or aid agency statements of policy intent.
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Cross, C. (2009) Urbanization & women's economic exclusion. (Paper presented to the Conference on Gender and Poverty Reduction, 13-15 October).
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Daniel, J. (2006) Economy: introduction. In State of the nation: South Africa 2005-2006. Buhlungu, S., Daniel, J., Southall, R. & Lutchman, J. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 169-174.
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Daniel, J. & Lutchman, J. (2006) South Africa in Africa: scrambling for energy. In State of the nation: South Africa 2005-2006. Buhlungu, S., Daniel, J., Southall, R. & Lutchman, J. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 484-509.
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Davies, R. (2008) Economic recovery in Zimbabwe. Development Southern Africa. 4:26-27.
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The people of Zimbabwe want the government of national unity to deliver rapid economic recovery. Most of the opposition to
ZANU-PF, outside the civic activists and Matabeleland, has been driven by the economic collapse. By 'persuading' MDC
to agree to this particular agreement, ZANU-PF has initiated its best chance of retaining power.
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Du Toit, R. & Roodt, J. (2009) Engineers in a developing country: the profession and education of engineering professionals in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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Economic growth in South Africa depends on engineering capacity to provide state-of-the-art, safe infrastructure for service delivery. At the same time the new democracy needs to address transformation. This monograph explores current capacity to address these challenges.
The study provides a demographic analysis of employment trends across the public and private sectors of the economy, and ...
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Edigheji, O. (2009) Bridge over troubled waters. HSRC Review. 7(3):3.
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For South Africa to succeed in achieving its developmental objectives, a new pact needs to be forged between the government, employer organisations and unions, according to Minister for Development Cooperation of the Netherlands, Bert Koenders. Omano Edigheji reports.
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Erasmus, J.C. (2000) Eastern Cape: labour market situation analysis. (Commissioned by the National Business Initiative (NBI)).
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Erasmus, J.C. (2000) Free State: labour market situational analysis. (Commissioned by the National Business Initiative (NBI)).
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Erasmus, J.C. (2000) Gauteng: labour market situational analysis. (Commissioned by the National Business Initiative (NBI)).
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Erasmus, J.C. (2000) Kwa-Zulu-Natal: labour market situational analysis. (Commissioned by the National Business Initiative (NBI)).
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Erasmus, J.C. (2000) Mpumalanga: labour market situational analysis. (Commissioned by the National Business Initiative (NBI)).
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Erasmus, J.C. (2000) North West: labour market situational analysis. (Commissioned by the National Business Initiative (NBI)).
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Erasmus, J.C. (2000) Northern Cape: labour market situational analysis. (Commissioned by the National Business Initiative (NBI)).
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Erasmus, J.C. (2000) Northern Province: labour market situational analysis. (Commisioned by the National Business Initiative (NBI)).
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Garcia, A., Arndt, C. & Ngandu, S. (2009) The economic influence of infrastructural expenditure: a multiplier decomposition and structural path analysis. (March).
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Gastrow, M. (2009) Trouble and chance in the motor industry. HSRC Review. 7(1):21-22.
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The word 'crisis', when written in Chinese, is composed of two characters: one representing danger and the other representing opportunity. Whereas the South African automotive manufacturing industry is staggering under the impact of the global economic crisis that has nearly bankrupted the world's largest automotive companies, there might also be some opportunities.
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Hawkins, T. (2009) Emerging markets and the global recession. (March).
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Houston, G.F. (2000) Corporatism and economic growth: a case study of the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC) in South Africa. Africa development. 1-25.
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Jacobs, P. (2008) Book review: Konadu-Agyemang, K., Panford, K. (eds.) Africa's development in the twenty-first century: pertinent socio-economic and development issues. Africa Insight. 38(1):197-199.
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Kahn, M. Lasting changes. Financial Mail. 79. (20 April 2007)
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Khosa, M.M. (2001) Differential access to finance capital, communications technology and capital goods in Lesotho. In Lesotho 2000: public perceptions and perspectives. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. 181-198.
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Kraak, A. (2005) The challenge of the 'second economy' in South Africa: the contribution of skills development. Journal of vocational education and training. 57(4):429-452.
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Levine, S. & Roberts, B. (2007) A q-squared approach to pro-poor policy formulation in Namibia. (Q-squared working paper, no. 49, November).
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Reduction of poverty and inequality through economic growth and employment generation has subsequently been at the top of the Namibia policy agenda. In the course of formulating plans to actively combat poverty, its definition has been broadened to go beyond just monetary measures and include concerns related to capabilities, vulnerability and exclusion.
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Lorentzen, J., Manamela, A., Muller, L. & Gastrow, M. (2010) A technology gap analysis of leading firms in Cape Town. (Background paper for the study on Cape Town's future competitiveness and the global knowledge economy, October).
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This paper focuses on technology gaps between leading firms in Cape Town and the global frontier. In each sector we establish frontier technologies through a review of the literature, as well as examples of global firms that make use of them. Although
knowledge evidently exists not only at but also below the frontier, the increasing importance of innovation for competitiveness underlines the i...
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Lorentzen, J. (2005) STARSTRUCK: economic impact of DaimlerChrysler on the Eastern Cape. HSRC review. 3(2):6-7.
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Brakes may be put on foreign direct investment if the Eastern Cape region takes its eyes off competitiveness, writes JO LORENTZEN.
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Moola, N. & Gordon, S. (2009) The potential impact of the global financial crisis on South Africa. (March).
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Ngandu, S. (2005) Exchange rates and employment: the experience of fast-growing economies. (October).
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Pillay, U. & Bass, O. (2008) South Africans believe 2010 can lift them, but how high?. HSRC Review. 6(1):12.
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For the third consecutive year South Africans' attitudes remain positive towards the 2010 World Cup, concludes UDESH PILLAY and ORLI BASS in a comparison between the 2007 data to that of previous years. But given the recent spate of load-shedding, rising interest rates and stadium strike action, policy-makers and 2010 stakeholders should eschew complacency and pay attention to managing expectat...
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Shisana, O. (2008) Bridging South Africa's second economy. New Agenda. 29:48-51.
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South Africa is a middle-income country with GDP per capita of R97688, comparable to countries such as Turkey and Argentian, but lower than that of its African neighbour, Botswana. This GDP per capita masks mahor income inequalifiers. There are two societies in South Africa; one similar to those found in very highly developed economies, and the other similar to underdeveloped economies. Thi...
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Tregenna, F. (2007) The contribution of manufacturing and services sectors to growth and employment in South Africa. (March).
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This paper investigates the relationships between the manufacturing and services sectors in South Africa and between each of them and the rest of the economy in terms of capacity to drive and support economic growth and employment retention and creation.
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Truen, S. (2007) Prices, investment and efficiency on the railways: a sectoral review of efficiencies in administered pricing in South Africa. (Commissioned by Trade and Industry Chamber, July).
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There has been little change to the operational structure of the South African rail industry over the past century. Now, as then, it remains a state-owned monopoly, run as a division of the same entity that houses the South African ports. Despite attempts
to introduce greater commercial discipline in the 1980s, the rail industry is still only intermittently profitable and seems to be cross-sub...
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Turok, I. Why transport is not the only way to get our cities moving. Business Day. (19 May 2010)
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van der Heijden, T. (2005) Business process outsourcing in identified financial services sub-sectors: the potential for offshore business flows into South Africa and consequent recommendations for targeted government support. (August).
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Viljoen, J.H. & Naicker, K. (2000) Nature-based tourism on communal land: the Mavhulani experience. Development Southern Africa. 17(1):135-148.
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South Africa is experiencing a boom in nature-based tourism in which underdeveloped and previously marginalized homeland areas are not sharing. The aim of this article is to determine some of the crucial constraints which inhibit tourism in these areas, by exploring various tourism development issues based on insights gained from research undertaken in Mavhulani bush cap, a seemingly successfu...
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Wabiri, N. & Amusa, H. (2010) Quantifying South Africa's crude oil import risk: a multi-criteria portfolio model. Economic Modelling. 27:445-453.
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A major consequence of South Africa's strong economic growth since the democratic dispensation of 1994 is the rapid increase in domestic demand for oil energy. With small amounts of proven oil reserves, the rise in oil demand as an energy source has resulted in South Africa's growing dependence on external sources for its domestic crude oil needs. High oil prices, instability in major oil produ...
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Wabiri, N. (2010) South Africa oil import portfolio risks: which way out?. HSRC Review. 8(3):22-24.
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A major consequence of South Africa's strong economic growth since the democratic dispensation of 1994 is the rapid increase in domestic demand for oil energy. Growth in total oil consumption has averaged almost 2% per annum due to expansions in the transportation and mining sectors. With small amounts of proven oil reserves, the rise in oil demand as an energy source has resulted in South Afri...
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Wilkinson, I. (2009) Innovation comes in small packages. HSRC Review. 7(4):23.
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Small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs), a central policy focus area in South Africa, specifically with regard to economic growth and employment creation, have the potential to become engines of innovation. But lack of funding hampers the sector's innovation development. Irma Wilkinson believes that current SMME policies and programmes need to be broadened to stimulate innovation.
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Woolard, I.D. (2002) Poverty and inequality reduction strategies for South Africa. (Paper presented at the Gauteng legislature conference on "Parliaments and the eradication of poverty" Muldersdrift 2-4 October 2002).
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