tipslogo2c

  • You are here:  
  • Home
  • Research
Subscribe to this RSS feed

Research Archive (604)

Rethinking economic growth: the South African perspective

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Territorial competitiveness and development policy

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

The effect of exchange rate volatility on the volume of South African exports

  • 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,…
Topic:

Reducing exchange rate volatility and supporting competitiveness

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Inflation targeting and inflation performance in South Africa

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Why are some exchange rates more volatile than others? evidence from transition economies

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Estimating the relationship between commodity prices and the real exchange rate of the rand

  • 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…
Topic:

Achieving Asgi-SA's aspirations: the role of the national system of innovation

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Trends and transitions in labour market outcomes among adults enrolled in the Free State's public sector ARV treatment programme

  • 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…
Topic:

Work allocation forms: substitution between full-time, part-time and contracted labour in the creative industries

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Evaluating land reform's contribution to South Africa's pro-poor growth pattern

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

The role of industrial policy and the minerals-energy complex in the decline of South African textiles and clothing

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

The Development and Importance of Travel Service Exports from South Africa

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Reviewing 15 years of resource-poor small-scale agriculture in South Africa: is there any way forward?

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Is water shedding next?

  • 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.…
Download:
Topic:

Quasi-formalisation of informal land markets in communal areas to facilitate increased arable production: a case study of Thaba Nchu

  • 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…
Topic:

How tenure security can increase access to economic oppportunities for the poor

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Impact of clustering on innovation, entrepreneurship and organisation of SMEs in transition economies

  • 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…
Topic:

Corporate Governance in South Africa

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Export processing zone expansion in an African country: What are the labour market and gender impacts?

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:
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,…
Download:
Published in External Publications
Topic:

Unemployment, Education and Skills Constraints in Post-Apartheid South Africa

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Direct and Indirect Productivity Impacts of Nineteen Infrastructure Measures

  • 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,…
Download:
Topic:

Education Screening in South Africa's Labour Market

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:
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…
Download:
Published in External Publications

The Effect of Minimum Wages on the Employment and Earnings of South Africa's Domestic Service Workers

  • 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…
Download:
Topic:

Risks to Global Trade and Implications for South Africa's Economy and Policy

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Jeremy Wakeford
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The past two decades have witnessed an unprecedented globalisation of trade in goods and services. This process has been driven, inter alia, by technology, ideology and the availability of relatively cheap energy. By extrapolating this trend, one may expect further integration of world markets and increasingly unhindered international trade. However,…
Download:
Topic:

Co-Movement Between South Africa and SADC: Is Trade a Predominant Factor?

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Alain Kabundi and Elsabe Loots
  • Countries and Regions South Africa, Southern African Development Community (SADC)
This paper uses a novel dynamic factor model a la Forni et al. (2003) to investigate the impact of increasing trade on the co-movement of the business cycle between South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. The results show a moderate but increasing synchronization between South Africa and SADC…
Download:
Topic:

Unpacking the Nature of Demand and Supply Relationships in the Mining Capital Goods and Services Cluster: The Case of PGMs

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Marian Walker
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
South African policy makers and industrial planners are centrally concerned with identifying strategies and programmes that maximise and broaden the economic linkages that naturally arise from the need to extract, process and refine the country's mineral resources (DST, 2002; DTI, 2002). At an industry level these linkages encompass 'downstream' (beneficiation)…
Download:
Topic:

An Augmented Gravity Model of South Africa's Exports of Transport Equipments and Machineries

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Moses Sichei, Jean Luc Erero and Tewodros Gebreselassie
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The study applies an augmented gravity equation to South Africa's exports of motor vehicles, parts & accessories (SIC 381-383) to 76 countries over the period 1994 to 2003. The study employs a dynamic panel data model to estimate long-run and short-run coefficients. First, it is shown that it takes about…
Download:
Topic:
Page 13 of 21