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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Kwazulu-Natal
- Author(s) Marcel Kohler
- Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa's energy system has been, and still is, one of the key contributing factors to the social and economic development of the nation. By international standards, the South African economy is very energy-intensive, meaning that the country uses a large amount of energy for every rand of economic output.…
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- Kohler_24_Oct_2008_v2__tmp59255f01.pdf (4605 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Johannesburg
- Author(s) Talita Dalton-Greyling
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The world's interest in forced displacement, including refugees and forced migrants has increased considerably during the last decades as the number of people displaced became a global concern. At the end of 2005, the global figure of "persons of concern" to the United Nations Higher Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) stood…
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- Dalton_Greyling_Refugees_24_Oct_2008.pdf (4479 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Kate Philip
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The paper will explore the assumptions and analysis informing the drafting of a second economy strategy, a process that has been underway under the auspices of The Second Economy Strategy Project: an initiative of the Presidency, based at TIPS. The paper will argue that the concept of 'the second economy'…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of the Free State
- Author(s) Antonie Pool
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Democracy opened the door for transformation in South Africa. In the past decade, various laws, policies and programmes have been implemented with the aim of putting into effect the principles of the new South African Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with the aim of improving the lives of the…
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- Pool_TIPS2008.pdf (3362 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation YENEPAD
- Author(s) Alain Ndedi
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Colonialism and the deleterious impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and now globalisation. Some parts of postcolonial Africa have attempted to set up ministries of economic development. Others have concentrated on attracting on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) whilst some others have early on realised that the state and private capital…
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- rethinking_economic_growth.pdf (3164 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation Orkestra, Basque Institute of Competitiveness
- Author(s) James Wilson
There are fundamental links between academic treatments of 'economic development' and of the popular policy discourse of 'competitiveness'. Productivity-focused analyses of competitiveness are inherently related to market-centric analyses of development that have economic growth as their objective. However, a consensus is emerging on the need for broader conceptions of economic…
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- Territorial competitiveness and development policy (3214 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation South African Reserve Bank
- Author(s) Siobhan Redford
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a relationship between export volumes and exchange rate volatility exists as suggested in the ASGISA document. It goes about this by first investigating the theoretical channels that predict the relationship between export volumes and exchange rate volatility. The theoretical prediction though,…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Pretoria and Tilburg University
- Author(s) E. Schaling
- Countries and Regions South Africa
In this paper we analyze the relationships between exchange rates, inflation and competitiveness. We show that over the 1994-2006 sample period real exchange rate depreciations did not improve the trade balance and therefore had no positive effect on growth. One reason is that SA exports are priced to market (PTM…
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- Forum08_Schaling_Reducing_exchange_rate_volatility_UP.pdf (3627 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation University of the Free State
- Author(s) M. Marinkov;P. Burger
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Formal inflation targeting has been adopted as the monetary policy framework in South Africa since February 2000. Prior to that (since about 1990), the South African Reserve Bank has pursued implicit inflation targeting with no officially announced inflation target. Official inflation targeting frameworks are based on the premise that inflation…
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- BurgerMarinkov_Tips.pdf (5010 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Cape Town and Deloitte Consulting
- Author(s) Chandana Kularatne; Roy Haveman
- Countries and Regions South Africa
To better understand why some currencies are more volatile than others, this paper considers the cross-country determinants of exchange rate volatility for a set of middle-income countries. Overall, the paper finds that higher levels of reserves reduce volatility, and it is estimated that an appropriate level of reserves is approximately…
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- Kalaratne_Havemann_Volatile_Currency_24_Oct_2008.pdf (4027 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation South African Reserve Bank
- Author(s) L. Rangasamy;J. Jakoet
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The key objective of this paper is to construct a commodity export price series for South Africa (incorporating a wider range of commodities than those considered in the empirical literature on South Africa to date) and to determine its influence on real exchange rate movements in South Africa. Existing models…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Stellenbosch
- Author(s) Rachel Jafta;Willem Boshoff
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The ASGISA document identifies several binding constraints preventing South Africa from achieving elevated levels of economic growth (Republic of South Africa, 2006). This paper takes an evolutionary perspective to consider whether the proposed policy interventions will address what is, arguably, a fundamental growth constraint: the current inability of the economic…
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- TipsforumJaftaenBoshoff2008_edited.pdf (5611 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Free State
- Author(s) Frikkie Booysen
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The adverse micro- and macroeconomic impacts of the HIV and AIDS epidemic is relatively well documented. With the advent of the free provision of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in the public sector, the focus in research on the economics of HIV and AIDS has shifted toward determining how ART may ameliorate…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of the Witwatersrand
- Author(s) Gregory John Lee;Ralitza Dobreva
- Countries and Regions South Africa
One of the most pervasive trends in contemporary South African business is the substitution of alternative work forms for full-time, permanent employment. Part-time work and external contracting are used extensively by firms, ostensibly to adjust to altering work conditions. However, relatively little is understood about the process, context and contingencies…
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- Dobreva_Lee_Work_Allocation_24_Oct_2008.pdf (3192 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Pretoria
- Author(s) Ward Anseeuw;Ntombifuthi Mathebula
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Although the 1994 elections concern redress, social justice and reconciliation, many would consider that these objectives will never be achieved if no economic and social development affects the previously disadvantaged. Development has many dimensions (especially if considered as addressing the injustices of the past) among which the increase of low…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation SOAS, University of London
- Author(s) Lotta Takala
- Countries and Regions South Africa
South African manufacturing has experienced a slow overall decline despite adopting a range of recommended economic policies from protectionism and active state support in the period preceding political change (1994) followed by aggressive liberalisation and more free access to markets thereafter. Alongside interfering industrial policies, the decline has also been…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
- Author(s) Johan Fourie
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Trade-in-services is fast becoming one of the foremost areas of research and policy making in the international trade arena. Although the General Agreement on Trade-in-Services (GATS) was implemented in 1995, it is only recently, with the realisation of the close linkages between goods and service exports and the advent of…
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- Fourie_Travel_service_exports_SA_24_Oct_2008.pdf (4349 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Senior Research Manager, Centre for Employment, Poverty and Growth, HSRC.
- Author(s) Tim Hart
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper will review the attempts at fostering resource poor small-scale agricultural development in South Africa from 1994 to the present. Based on the lack of a concerted policy for support and development of this group of farmers and given the incomplete datasets about this group a number an attempt…
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- Hart_Paper_24_Oct_2008__tmp52aa50cf.pdf (4487 Downloads)
- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Pretoria
- Author(s) James Blignaut;Jan van Heerden
- Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa is in the grip of an electricity crisis marked by a euphemism known as load shedding. The demand for electricity has grown to the point that the supply reserve margin is often under threat, necessitating the electricity supplier to cut supply to some areas, or to shed load.…
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- Blignaut_Heerden_Is_Water_Shedding_Next_24_Oct_2008.pdf (3223 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Author(s) Mompati N. Baiphethi; Siyabulela Manona;M.F. Viljoen;G. Kundhlande
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Most of the communal arable lands in the former homeland areas are currently either underutilized or not utilized at all. Among some of the reasons given is the absence of 'land markets' owing to the communal nature of the rights bestowed on the owners/users of the land. This paper aims…
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Development Works and Leap
- Author(s) Lauren Royston
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The question that concerns this paper is: how can greater security of tenure increase access to economic opportunities for the poor? Because of the relationship of tenure to property, the primary concern of this paper becomes: how secure access to property can increase economic opportunities for the poor. Rephrased, the…
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- Forum08_Royston_Tenure_security_access_poor_Dev_Works.pdf (2666 Downloads)
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- Year 2008
- Organisation Lahore University of Management Sciences
- Author(s) Faheem ul Islam
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The paper presents significant new insights for Policy Makers, Practitioners, Educators, and Researchers into the socio-economy of agglomerated SMEs in developing country context. Using mixed methods of inquiry and concurrent triangulation approach this paper profiles the socio-economy of the internationally competitive textile industry cluster of Faisalabad in Pakistan to establish…
- Year 2007
- Author(s) Stephan Malherbe;Nick Segal
- Countries and Regions 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…
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- Corporate_Governance_in_South_Africa.pdf (4847 Downloads)
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- Year 2004
- Author(s) Peter Glick; Francois Roubard
- Countries and Regions Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)
This study seeks to understand the labor market (employment and earnings) and gender impacts of the dramatic recent expansion of the export processing zone (the Zone Franche) in urban Madagascar. It is distinguished from most earlier empirical analysis of this subject by its use of micro data collected annually over…
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- Glick_Roubaud_Export_processing_zone.pdf (3181 Downloads)
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13 February 2007
International Marketing Textbook
- Year 2006
- Author(s) S.M. Burgess;C.H. Bothma
TIPS contributed a chapter to this book published by Oxford University Press on International Marketing. TIPS wrote the chapter on Exporting for Small Businesses. The book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate international marketing students but it also a ready reference and guide to exporters and international marketing practitioners. For more information on international Marketing,…
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- Chapter_19_Intro.pdf (2968 Downloads)
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- Year 2006
- Author(s) Dorrit Posel and Rosa Dias
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper investigates the relationship between education and unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa, and probes the argument that employment growth has been inhibited particularly by skills constraints. We use probit regression analysis to show that higher education protected against unemployment in both 1995 and 2003, and that overall, the relative…
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- diasposel_dpru_2006_1.pdf (4378 Downloads)
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- Year 2006
- Author(s) J.W. Fedderke and Z. Bogetic
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous (countervailing signs) results with little robustness. A number of explanations of the contradictory findings have been proposed. These range from the crowd-out of private by public sector investment, non-linearities generating the possibility of infrastructure overprovision,…
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- infraprod2wbfinal2.pdf (3300 Downloads)
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- Year 2006
- Author(s) Steven F Koch and Simon Ssekabira Ntege
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper empirically contributes towards the debate between the human capital and screening theories. Using South Africa's September 2004 Labour Force Survey data, and after controlling for self-selection, the weak and strong versions of screening hypothesis are tested. The honour's degree, and certificates or diplomas got without grade twelve, provide…
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- Education_Screening-StevenKochSimonSNtege_1.pdf (3492 Downloads)
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31 January 2007
Employment dynamics in the Western Cape
- Year 2006
- Author(s) Morne Oosthuizen
Morne Oosthuizen - deputy director of the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) at the University of Cape Town - contributed a paper that first appeared in the Western Cape Treasury's Provincial Economic Review: Outlook 2006.' The research presents a closer analysis of the Western Cape labour market, providing both an…
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- 817-2.pdf (2913 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Author(s) Tom Hertz
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Minimum wages have been in place for South Africa's one million domestic service workers since November of 2002. Using data from seven waves of the Labour Force Survey, this paper ocuments that the real wages, average monthly earnings, and total earnings of all employed domestic workers have risen since the…
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- 766.pdf (4385 Downloads)