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We begin by presenting an overview of manufacturing in the Durban area and report on the GDMA survey, highlighting the methodology and key objectives and findings of the survey. We then focus on the international trade issues, reporting on how firms in the GDMA are responding to trade liberalisation. We…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Imraan Valodia and Myriam Velia
- Countries and Regions South Africa
15 June 2004
Industrial Strategy and Local Economic Development: Manufacturing Policy and Technological Capabilities in Ekurhuleni
This paper examines the impact of national developments and policies on the development of industry in Ekurhuleni. It assesses role of local government in industrial development in light of recent literature addressing agglomeration effects, industrial districts, and the development of local economic competencies and institutions. The analysis draws on recent…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Thandi Phele; Simon Roberts; Ian Steuart
- Countries and Regions South Africa
There is a general consensus that bad economic policies, among other factors, are to blame for the poor performance of economies in sub Saharan African (SSA). However, there is no similar consensus on the effect of economic reforms on poverty alleviation, a primary goal of any economy in the region.…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Tsegaye Yilma Dessalegn;Ernst Berg; Thomas Berger
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
The aim of this paper is to better understand farmers' perception of the relevance of different development intervention programs. Farmers' subjective ranking of agricultural problems and their preference for development intervention are elicited using a stated preference method. The factors influencing these preferences are determined using a random utility model.…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Wagayehu Bekele
- Countries and Regions Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)
15 June 2004
Institutional Framework, Interest Rate Policy and the Nigerian Manufacturing Sub-sector
In this study, we set out to empirically investigate the impact of interest rates and other macroeconomic factors on manufacturing performance in Nigeria using co-integration and an error correction mechanism (ECM) technique with annual time series covering the period between 1970 and 2002. Some statistical tools are employed to explore…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Babasanmi Babatope-Obasa; Michael Adebayo Adebiyi
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
This paper re-examines the effect of the South African social pension on the labour supply of working-age adults using data from 1993. We take account of the fact that households may include non-resident members, and therefore that the pension may play a role in facilitating migration to work or look…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Dorrit Posel; James Fairburn; Frances Lund
- Countries and Regions South Africa
15 June 2004
Alleviating Rural Poverty through Efficient Small Holders Farming Systems in Ethopia: Relevance of Macro Policies
Ethiopia is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. The country had a real per capita GDP of less than US $100 in 1995, and over 60 per cent of its population lives in absolute poverty. The problem of rural poverty and underdeveloped agriculture are closely…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) DK Grover; Anteneh Temesgen
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
"The United States has played a leading role in shaping the World Bank's agenda, and Bank projects often support U.S. foreign policy goals. For example, the Bank is providing resources to assist in the transition of central Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union from communist to market-basedsystems.…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Espen Villanger
15 June 2004
Two Million Net New Jobs': A Reconsideration of the Rise in Employment in South Africa, 1995 2003
In this paper we investigate labour market trends in South Africa between October 1995 and March 2003. In particular, we evaluate the South African government's claim that over this period, the economy created two million net new jobs. Using the same household survey data as that used to generate official…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Daniela Casale; Colette Muller; Dorrit Posel
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Despite the perceived role of efficient infrastructure as critical element for economic growth, poverty reduction and the attainment of the millennium development goals, there is clear evidence that the provision of infrastructure in Africa has been much below standard in terms of quantity and quality. Over the past decade, there…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Afeikhena Jerome
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
15 June 2004
The Post-Apartheid South African Labour Market
Since 1994, the South African economy has undergone significant changes with the government implementing various policies aimed at redressing the injustices of the past, fleshing out the welfare system and improving competitiveness as South Africa becomes increasingly integrated into the global economy. These policies have, directly or indirectly, impacted on…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Morne Oosthuizen; Haroon Bhorat
- Countries and Regions South Africa
15 June 2004
Estimating Utility Consistent Poverty Lines
The "Cost of Basic Needs" (CBN) approach to drawing consumption based poverty lines is widely applied and lays credible claim to being the best practice for estimating poverty measures. Unfortunately, a growing mass of evidence indicates that poverty estimates obtained under the CBN approach are often demonstrably utility inconsistent. Here,…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Channing Arndt; Kenneth Simler
- Countries and Regions Mozambique
15 June 2004
Has the New Zealand/Australian Closer Economic Relationship (CER) been Trade Widening or Deepening?
This study finds that export trade widened rather than deepened as a result of the CER trade agreement with Australia. Trade has expanded in those products that were not heavily traded prior to the agreement as opposed to an expansion of traditional-exports that were traded at the start of the…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Ron Sandrey; Dirk van Seventer
15 June 2004
Food Security, Agricultural Technology and Policy - The Case of Maize in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper deals with the importance of agricultural policy and technology for farmers' food security and market integration. We draw on data recently collected in interviews with over 3000 farmers in eight sub-Saharan African countries.2 The results indicate that the food production among African smallholders is highly responsive to increased…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Goran Djurfeldt; Rolf Larsson
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
15 June 2004
Swaziland: In the Pursuit of Economic Liberalization and Growth. How Poverty is Reproduced at the Micro-level
Why is poverty so pervasive in Swaziland despite substantial economic growth achieved through extreme economic openness over several years? Is poverty alleviation in Swaziland a more reachable goal than was in the past, as this country strives to restore rapid economic growth through AGOA facilitating greater insertion into the global…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Gabriel Tati
- Countries and Regions Swaziland
15 June 2004
The Conjuncture of Poverty Microsimulation Linked to a Macroeconomic Forecasting Model: A Case Study in Senegal
Poverty reduction policies have become the main guidelines of economic policies in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Therefore the authorities need new social indicators in order to follow the application and the effectiveness of their policies. In recent years renewed efforts have been made to develop new policy tools aimed at…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Thierry Latreille
This paper is an empirical analysis of the demand for Nigeria's non-oil export merchandise with a view to providing an answer to the question of how far the present product mix would go in the global market. The study employed the Johansen's test of co-integration and analysis of structural characteristics…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Rosemary N. Okoh
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
15 June 2004
South African Trade Reform since Democracy
As part of a wider investigation by the National Institute for Economic Policy, covering a range of economic policy issues, the main aim of this paper is to provide another view of how trade policy has evolved since democracy. We use standard quantities measures of trade policy analysis as an…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Rashad Cassim; Dirk van Seventer
- Countries and Regions South Africa
15 June 2004
Youth Labour Markets in Africa
This paper makes use of a review of the literature on African labour markets, the international literature on youth and the labour market and a fifteen country African data set to analyze the current situation of youth in sub-Saharan labour markets.
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Cecil Mlatshni; Murray Leibbrandt
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
15 June 2004
The Demand for Education for Orphans in Zimbabwe
We examine the effect of orphan status on school enrolment in Zimbabwe, a country strongly impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic with a rapidly growing population of orphans. Using data from 2003, after controlling for other determinants of enrolment we find that orphans are less likely to attend school than non-orphans.…
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Craig Gundersen; Thomas Kelly; Kyle Jemison
- Countries and Regions Zimbabwe