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Engineering News – 2 March 2023 by Schalk Burder (Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor)
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TIPS In the News
News24 - 2 March 2023 by Lameez Omarjee
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TIPS In the News
10 March 2023
The Real Economy Bulletin - Fourth Quarter 2022
Main Bulletin: The Real Economy Bulletin - Fourth Quarter 2022 In this edition GDP growth: The economy shrank by 1.3% in the fourth quarter of 2022. Arguably that very poor outcome actually showed surprising resilience, given extraordinarily heavy loadshedding combined with falling export prices. Manufacturing contracted by just under 1%, but agriculture and mining both fell by 3%. Since the pandemic, quarterly GDP growth has turned markedly volatile. Read more. Employment: Despite the decline in the GDP, total employment climbed by almost 160 000 in the fourth quarter of 2022, for a net gain of 900 000 compared to the same quarter in 2020. Still,…
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Quarterly Bulletin
The Import Localisation and Supply Chain Disruption study is a quarterly report that seeks to identify goods from the list of imports identified in the Import Tracker report that South Africa could possibly viably manufacture. Each quarter focuses on five manufactured items from the list of imports in the corresponding quarter's Import Tracker report. The five products in this report are: Product 1: Sugar confectionery not containing cocoa, including white chocolate Product 2: Microwave ovens Product 3: Paper and paperboard, surface-coloured, surface-decorated or printed, coated, impregnated: OtherBrakes and servo-brakes and their parts, n.e.s.: Other Product 4: Compressors for refrigerating equipment Import Tracker -…
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Imports Localisation
16 March 2023
Small business in industrial policy
A critical mechanism behind the unusually deep inequality in South Africa is the very small number, by international standards, of small businesses in the country. On the one hand, far fewer people earn livelihoods from their own businesses than in other upper middle-income countries. That fact largely explains South Africa’s…
- Year 2023
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Neva Makgetla (TIPS)
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Trade and Industry
This is TIPS’s third publication on the State of Small Business in South Africa which is a periodic special edition of our Real Economy Bulletin. The series provides baseline data on the number of small businesses and their contribution to the economy, as well as their distribution by industry and location, ownership by race, gender and age, investment and profitability. The bulletin first looks at the number of small business, both formal and informal, and the rate of growth. The figures show how the legacy of apartheid has left the country lagging behind other upper middle-income countries, which is a…
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The State of Small Business in South Africa
17 March 2023
Huge blow for exports in South Africa: report
BusinessTech - 5 March 2023
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TIPS In the News
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TIPS In the News
Engineering News - 6 March 2023 be Schalk Burger
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TIPS In the News
Engineering News - 14 March 2023 by Terence Creamer
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TIPS In the News
News24 - 16 March 2023 by Lameez Omarjee
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TIPS In the News
Engineering News - 17 March 2023 by Marleny Arnoldi
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TIPS In the News
22 March 2023
A tale of life and death: The coal value chain's impacts on local communities in South Africa
This working paper unpacks the impacts of a transition away from coal on affected communities in South Africa. It takes a multi-layered approach highlighting the economic, social, and environmental impacts coal has had to date and the implications of a transition on communities. Sections 2, 3 and 4 discuss the…
- Year 2022
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Lerato Monaisa Gaylor Montmasson-Clair (TIPS)
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Climate Change
23 March 2023
FDI Tracker Q3 2022
This quarter 12 projects not previously recorded in the FDI Tracker were registered, and nine existing projects were updated. The total pledged investment value for the quarter was R22.5 billion from nine projects. The values of the remaining three projects have not been announced. The FDI Tracker identified 1 460 employment…
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TIPS FDI Tracker
The Citizen - 26 March 2023 by Ina Opperman
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TIPS In the News
30 March 2023
Export Tracker - Q3 2022
The third quarter of 2022 saw South Africa’s merchandise exports increase by 9.5% from the same period last year, amounting to R543 billion, with a marginal increase of 2.8% from the previous quarter (Q2 2022). Imports experienced a larger increase, growing by 27.1% year-on-year to the value of R491 billion…
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TIPS Export Tracker
This Working Paper analyses the linkages between industrial policy and local economic development planning in South Africa in terms of both economics and governance. It outlines the role of four groups of municipalities in the economy: the largest metros (Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni, Cape Town and eThekwini); the five secondary…
- Year 2022
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Neva Makgetla, Saul Levin, Rapula Diale, Itumeleng Mokoena, Mbofholowo Tsedu, Kelello Mashiane
- Countries and Regions South Africa
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Trade and Industry
06 April 2023
Import Tracker - Q3 2022
South Africa’s trade surplus declined to about R51 billion in the year to the third quarter of 2022, from about R109.3 billion in the third quarter of 2021. Although exports have continued to grow, they have done so at a lower rate than during the COVID-driven rise in the price…
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TIPS Import Tracker