Employment and Economic Impact of Infrastructure

Housing shortages in South Africa: a discussion of the after-effects of community participation in housing provision in Diepkloof

by MAFUKIDZE, J & HOOSEN, F., 2009
Urban Forum (2009) 20:379

Community participation is a complex process and its propensity to having unintended negative effects plays a vital role in its outcome. This paper attempts to reconstruct and critique the outcomes of a participatory process that seeks to address housing shortages by using the narratives of local residents in Diepkloof. Heterogeneity of identities tied to “spatiality…

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The Economy-Wide Effects of Price-Reducing Reforms in Infrastructure Services in South Africa

by DAVIES, R. & VAN SEVENTER, D.E.N., 2006
Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council

Prices of infrastructure services in South Africa may be higher than in other countries because of imperfect competition, non-tariff barriers to trade, or inefficiencies in production. A static computerised general equilibrium (CGE) model is used to analyse the economy-wide effects of reducing telecommunications and transport prices by reforming each of these three factors. This modelling…

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The Economy-Wide Effects of Price Reducing Reforms In Infrastructure Services In South Africa

by DAVIES,R.,VAN SEVENTER,D.E.N, 2006
Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council

Prices of infrastructure services in South Africa may be higher than in other countries because of imperfect competition, non-tariff barriers to trade, or inefficiencies in production. A static computerised general equilibrium (CGE) model is used to analyse the economy-wide effects of reducing telecommunications and transport prices by reforming each of these three factors. This modelling…

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The Economic Influence of Infrastructural Expenditure: A Multiplier Decomposition and Structural Path Analysis

by GARCIA, A., ARNDT, C., and NGANDU, S., 2009
Research Report. Centre for Poverty Employment and Growth, Human Sciences Research Council

Garcia et al. explore the use of structural path analysis in assessing the potential economic impact of the South African government’s planned infrastructural programme of R787 billion. The construction sector is large enough to accommodate a substantial stimulus and has significant linkages with other production activities and households at all income levels. Structural path analysis…

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Administered Prices Study on Economic Inputs: Executive Summary – Ports, Rail, Water

by ALTMAN, etal, 2008
HSRC research report prepared for Nedlac

“This is the executive summary of an extensive report examining the prices of goods and services provided by entities owned by the South African government in water, rail and ports. Prices in these three sectors are referred to as ‘administered’ due to the public ownership of the entities providing them. Furthermore, each sector provides important…

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