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- Year 2005
- Author(s) Neil Rankin, Mans Soderbom and Francis Teal
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper investigates whether African manufacturing exporters are more productive than non-exporters and whether these productivity differences precede entry into the export market. We find at expoters are more productive but that productivity does not matter for entry into t export market - suggesting that learning by exporting is important.…
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- 771.pdf (2779 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Author(s) Simon Hess
- Countries and Regions South Africa, Southern African Development Community (SADC)
The current implementation of a free trade area in SADC has given rise to concerns that the present location of industry in the region will be adversely affected. Specifically, many of the smaller and less-developed countries fear that this change will result in a loss of their industry towards the…
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- 772.pdf (4154 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Author(s) K.R. Todani and T.V. Munyama
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper examines the characteristics of short-term fluctuations/volatility of the South African exchange rate and investigates whether this volatility has affected the South Africa's exports flows. In particular the paper investigates the impact of exchange rate volatility on aggregate South African exports flows to the rest of the world, as…
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- 773.pdf (3550 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Author(s) Dorrit Posel and Daniela Casale
- Countries and Regions South Africa
In household surveys, earnings data typically can be reported as point values, in brackets or as 'missing'. In this paper we consider South African household survey data that contain these three sets of responses. In particular, we examine whether there are systematic differences between the sample of the employed with…
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- 774.pdf (3420 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Author(s) L.G. Mohamed
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Understanding firm competitiveness and product development is crucial to industrial development. The plastics sector provides a good case in which to explore these issues. The plastics sector has been one of the better performing sectors in recent years in terms of output and employment. Plastic products are increasingly replacing metal…
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- 775.pdf (3203 Downloads)
- Year 2005
- Author(s) Mike Morris and Leanne Sedowski
- Countries and Regions Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)
The last few years have witnessed two major shifts in global trading and industrialisation patterns. The first is the rise of China (with the South East Asian region in tow) as the dominant force reshaping the relations between developing and developed countries as well as the competitive dynamics within the…
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- 779.pdf (4114 Downloads)
- Year 2005
- Author(s) Reza Daniels and Lawrence Edwards
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper evaluates how tariff liberalisation affected households in South Africa over the period 1995, 2000 and 2004, focussing specifically on the incidence of tariffs over the expenditure distribution. Results suggest that trade liberalisation has reduced the tariff burden for households across the expenditure distribution, implying significant welfare improvement to…
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- 780.pdf (3828 Downloads)
- Year 2005
- Author(s) Ryan Hawthorne, Reena Das Nair and Keith Bowen
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Between January 2002 and July 2005, the South African exchange rate has appreciated by more than 30 per cent. At the same time, there has been widespread news coverage of the decline in several manufacturing sectors, notably clothing and textiles. Over the same period, commodity prices have risen substantially. The…
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- 781.pdf (3961 Downloads)
- Year 2005
- Author(s) Servaas van der Berg, Ronelle Burger, Rulof Burger, Megan Louw and Derek Yu
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Using a constructed data series and another data series based on AMPS (the All Media and Products surveys), this paper explores trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period. To steer clear of an unduly optimistic conclusion, assumptions are chosen that would tend to show the least decline…
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- 782.pdf (3675 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Author(s) Geoff Parr
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Pricing tradable goods in the domestic market at import parity is evaluated to determine whether it can be characterized as a competitive constraint on pricing, or as a source of market power. The policy of import parity pricing (IPP) is also assessed in terms of the South African Competition Act.…
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- 783.pdf (5098 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa's low investment rate has been widely recognised as both a symptom and cause of relatively poor industrial performance in the past decade. Investment is particularly important as restructuring requires the rapid growth of new activities if potential gains are to be realised, especially with a view to increasing…
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- 788.pdf (3164 Downloads)
- Year 2005
- Author(s) D Kaplan
- Countries and Regions South Africa
NOTE: This is an extract from the recent report of the Department of Economic Development, Western Cape Province. The first chapter sets the scene by outlining some of the challenges faced. Chapter 5 sets out the heart of the approach employed in identifying priority sectors and the broad policy approach…
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- 790.pdf (3336 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Author(s) J.W. Fedderke and A.K. Fitschen
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper examines growth patterns in the Western Cape over the 1970-1996 period by means of primal growth accounting decompositions. Evidence by magisterial district, by statistical region and by SIC 3-digit manufacturing sector is presented. We find that the Western Cape differs from national growth patterns. Manufacturing in the Western…
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- 786.pdf (3634 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Author(s) Amiena Bayat and Zunaid Moolla
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Trade and industrial policies are generally viewed from the vantage point of national government. Hence the emphasis on the type of trade regime that should be pursued (tariffs, subsidies, etc), the state of the current account, the exchange rate and geo-political factors (globalisation, power blocs and regional associations). While the…
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- 793.pdf (4277 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Author(s) Johannes Fedderke;Yongcheol Shin
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper advances on previous work on the effects of trade and technical change on labour markets within the framework of Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory. First, we employ dynamic heterogeneous panel estimation techniques not previously used in thiscontext, which separate Heckscher-Ohlin-based long run relationships from short run dynamics that are heterogeneous…
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- 787.pdf (3856 Downloads)
- Year 2005
- Author(s) Jorge Maia;Lumkile Mondi; Simon Roberts
- Countries and Regions Mercosur (Common Market of the South), South Africa
Brazil and South Africa share similar development challenges. Both have very unequal income distributions, both have a strong resource orientation underpinning their industrial development trajectory, and both have undergone a sharp liberalisation and opening up of their economies in the past decade. At the same time, both countries are attempting…
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- 789.pdf (3988 Downloads)
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- Year 2005
- Author(s) Ryan Hawthorne;Reena Das Nair;Keith Bowen
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Ryan Hawthorne, Reena Das Nair and Keith Bowen of Johannesburg Economics presented this paper at the TIPS/DPRU/UNU-WIDER Forum 2005. It finds that there may be reasons other than high commodity prices for the general lacklustre growth in manufacturing output, the decline in manufacturing employment and the increase in employment in…
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- 817-5.pdf (3723 Downloads)
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- Year 2004
- Author(s) Nathan Okurut; Andrie Schoombee; Servaas van der Berg
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Uganda is one of the few African countries which has experienced quite substantial growth in the period since 1990. Growth of GDP has been estimated at 6.9% per annum for the period 1990-2002, compared to only 2.6% for all African countries and Ugandas own far weaker performance of 2.9% in…
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- credit_demand_and_rationing_in_Uganda_Okurut.pdf (3175 Downloads)
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Seeraj Mohammed; Kade Finnoff
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Capital flight is a serious problem for South Africa, which if not addressed will continue to impede its ability to deal with structural issues such as high unemployment and concentration of wealth. This paper presents an estimate of the wealth that left South Africa in the form of capital flight…
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- capital_flight_from_SASeeraj_Mohamed.pdf (4215 Downloads)
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- Year 2004
- Author(s) Farah Pirouz
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Recent studies using South African household survey data have questioned the exogeneity of household size and composition from income flows and labour market outcomes. (Maitra and Ray, 2001, and Klasen and Woolard, 2000). Research on unemployment in South Africa has occasionally viewed the household as either an important source of…
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- Labour_market_outcomes_FarahPirouz.pdf (3532 Downloads)
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- Year 2004
- Author(s) Martine Visser; Trudi Hartzenberg
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Trade liberalisation has a significant impact on firm-market dynamics in a regional context. The purpose of this paper is to use an industrial organisation framework, focusing on the analytical units, the firm and the market, to assess the impact of trade liberalisation within the Southern African region, SADC. It is…
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- Trade_Liberalisation_Visser_Hartzenberg.pdf (3583 Downloads)
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- Year 2004
- Author(s) Neren Rau
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
This paper describes the status of financial systems for a number of African countries south of the Sahara, identifying various problems that hinder access to finance, especially for the poor, and subsequently those issues that deter economic performance and development. The countries surveyed were selected on the basis of a…
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- Financial_Intermediation_Neren_Rau.pdf.pdf (3227 Downloads)
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- Year 2004
- Author(s) DK Grover; Anteneh Temesgen
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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…
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- Alleviating_Rural_Poverty-DK_Grover.pdf (3482 Downloads)
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Anna McCord; Dirk van Seventer
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper examines the performance of public works in addressing both micro and macroeconomic policy objectives relating to growth, employment and poverty reduction in South Africa. Survey data on the micro-economic impact of public worksprogramme participation is used alongside a social accounting matrix (SAM) for the South African economy which…
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- The_Economy-wide_Impacts_McCord_vanSeventer_2004.pdf (2919 Downloads)
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Andrew Dorward, Jamie Morrison, Peter Wobst, Hans Lofgren and Hardwick Tchale
- Countries and Regions Malawi
This paper pulls together insights from related farm-household and CGE modelling for Malawi to suggest wider methodological and policy lessons for pro-poor policy analysis in poor agrarian economies. The farm-household and CGE models and the principal results are summarised, and their strengths and weaknesses discussed. The discussion demonstrates the potential…
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- Modelling_pro-poor_Dorwood_Morrison.pdf (2520 Downloads)
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- Year 2004
- Author(s) Taz Chaponda, Neil Cole and Mickie Schoch
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- Year 2004
- Author(s) Sarah Ssewanyana and Stephen D. Younger
Unusually for an African economy, Uganda's growth has been rapid and sustained for an extended period of time. Further, this growth has clearly translated into substantial declines in poverty for all socio-economic groups and in all regions of the country. Despite this, there is concern in the country that other…
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- Infant_Mortality_Rate_Younger.pdf (3028 Downloads)
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- Year 2004
- Author(s) Francis Baye
This paper (1) develops an exact decomposition framework based on the Shapley Value in cooperative game theory, and (2) investigates the growth and redistribution effects of changes in poverty using Cameroon's household surveys. By all the P class of measures, poverty increased significantly between 1984 and 1996. The growth components…
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- Growth_and_Redistribution_Baye.pdf (2586 Downloads)
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- Year 2004
- Organisation The Edge Institute
- Author(s) Stephen Gelb
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper examines the nature of the divide which Mbeki pointed to between the two nations and the reasons for the limited response to this divide during the post-apartheid era since 1994 at which he hints. This paper argues that this response can be understood only through an historical analysis…
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- Gelb_Inequality_in_SouthAfrica.pdf (4803 Downloads)
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- Year 2004
- Author(s) Issidor Noumba
- Countries and Regions South Africa