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Explaining the Growth Absence: reviewing the evidence that can account for the poor growth performance of the South African economy South Africa's democratic transition now lies close to a decade in the past. The transition carried with it much by way of hopes in terms of a greater access by…
- Year 2001
- Organisation ERSA, University of the Witwatersrand
- Author(s) Johannes Fedderke
15 June 2001
The Design and Performance of Regulatory Agencies: What can South Africa Learn from the Brazilian Experience?
In recent years, dozens of OECD and non-OECD countries have followed the United States in establishing strong autonomous regulatory institutions empowered with regulatory instruments and financial independence. Flexibility and agility are required to implement ad hoc policies through regulations, resolutions, and decrees. Their special status also responds to the need…
- Year 2001
- Organisation OECD Development Centre – Paris and BNDES – Rio de...
- Author(s) Andrea Goldstein;Jose Claudio Linhares Pires
15 June 2001
Select Competition Issues arising from changes in the Distribution of Pharmaceutical Products in South Africa
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…
- Year 2001
- Organisation Development Policy Research Unit, UCT
- Author(s) Trudi Hartzenberg
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…
- Year 2001
- Organisation FEASibility (Pty) Ltd
- Author(s) Penelope Hawkins
15 June 2001
Promoting Competitive Outcomes in the Fixed Line Telecommunications Sector in South Africa
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…
- Year 2001
- Organisation University of Cape Town
- Author(s) James Hodge
The IT revolution has allowed techniques that were once the preserve of a handful of leading theoreticians to become part of the practical economist's everyday toolkit. CGE modelling is one of a number of approaches to economy-wide analysis that have become accessible and practicable as data- and computer-based techniques have…
- Date Wednesday, 12 March 2008
- Venue TIPS / The ComMark Trust Office, 826 Government Avenue, Pretoria
Published in
Events Archive
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…
- Year 2001
- Author(s) Tina James;Philip Esselaar;Dr. Jonathan Miller
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…
- Year 2001
- Author(s) Chandana Kularatne
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…
- Year 2001
- Author(s) Jeffrey D. Lewis
15 June 2001
The Determinants of Regulatory Effectiveness in Liberalised Markets Developing Country Experiences
The past two decades have witnessed far-reaching reforms in the provision of telecommunications services. Before the 1980's, telecoms services were mainly provided by state-owned enterprises and in rare cases by private monopolies with territorial or functional licenses. The 80's saw the role of the state being increasingly changed from that…
- Year 2001
- Author(s) Gertrude Makaya
12 November 2007
Corporate Governance in South Africa
By the late 1980s, many of South Africa's corporations were bloated, unfocused and run by entrenched and complacent managers. These firms were sustained and tolerated by a very different environment from that in advanced economies and capital markets. The mainstay of the South African environment was isolation. Tariffs and political…
- Year 2007
- Author(s) Stephan Malherbe;Nick Segal
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Published in
2007 - Annual Forum Papers
The determinants of economic growth have long interested economists. A number of variables have been found to be significant, among them the private investment rate, human capital investment rates, the political stability of a country and others. An important sub-category of such determinants is policy variables. Specifically, two such variables…
- Year 2001
- Author(s) Martine Mariotti
The 'new economy'Â remains an ambiguous concept which means different things to different people (see, for example, Cohen et al. 2000; OECD, 2000a, b; Shapiro and Varian, 1999). We argue that the notion of a 'new economy'Â is closely tied to the economic transformations which are powered by the development…
- Year 2001
- Organisation University of Natal, Durban
- Author(s) Sagren Moodley;Mike Morris;Justin Barnes
01 January 2007
National Industrial Policy Framework
In order to contribute towards government's goals for 2014 'and beyond ' the National Industrial Policy Framework (NIPF) vision for South Africa's industrialisation trajectory is:…
- Authors The Department of Trade and Industry
- Year 2007
- Organisation DTI
- Publisher DTI
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
15 June 2001
Explaining Long-Run Growth in South Africa And OECD Countries: Implications for the Rest of SADC Countries
This paper tests a 'generalised'Â 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…
- Year 2001
- Organisation National Institute for Economic Policy (NIEP)
- Author(s) Kevin Nell
15 June 2001
Information Technology and Producer Services A Source of Economic Development: The South African Case
This paper discusses one aspect of the by now somewhat discredited 'new economy'Â, 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…
- Year 2001
- Organisation SNF
- Author(s) Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
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…
- Year 2001
- Organisation LSE Economics Department
- Author(s) Danny Quah
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…
- Year 2001
- Organisation Centre for the Study of African Economies, Univers...
- Author(s) Neil Rankin
The South African government's objectives of job creation and poverty reduction depend on the success of policies that promote the employment of unskilled labour. Over the past decade, unskilled jobs in the formal sector have been lost, while the demand for skilled capital and labour has risen. In sectors that…
- Year 2001
- Organisation Economic Policy Research Institute
- Author(s) Michael Samson;Kenneth Mac Quene;Ingrid van Niekerk
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.…
- Year 2001
- Organisation Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
- Author(s) Dirk Ernst van Seventer