Leveraging Services for Employment, Growth and Equity: Stakeholder Mapping
by HEESE, K., 2005Research report prepared for the Director Generals’ Economic and Employment, and Social Clusters, Government of South Africa, Pretoria.
Heese provides a framework for Government to engage with stakeholders in service industries in South Africa. To this end, she maps each of the sub-sectors in terms of the classification of the services sector utilised in this process. The purpose of the maps is twofold. The first is to graphically outline the key stakeholders in…
read more >>Leveraging Services for Growth, Employment and Equity: Services Trade Reform in the South African Economy: What Does it Mean for Growth and Welfare?
by CASSIM, R. , 2009Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Cassim reviews the theoretical literature on the impact of services trade liberalisation on efficiency, welfare and growth. The objective is to assess its implications for services trade reform in the South African context. In view of data limitations, this paper draws insights from the theoretical and international literature and assesses its relevance to South Africa….
read more >>A Review of Services Regulation in South Africa
by MAYER, M.J. & ONYANGO, D. , 2008Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Domestic regulation is central to trade in services, increasing the competitiveness of services sub-sectors, and achieving social aims. It can both be a barrier to trade and a policy instrument for addressing market failure in the form of monopoly, asymmetric information and externalities. Regulation also plays a pivotal role in ensuring that the poor are…
read more >>Leveraging Services for Employment, Growth and Equity: Policy Scan and Gap Analysis: Government Initiatives to Promote Trade in Services
by MAYER, M.J., 2005Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Services account for more than 70% of output and employment in the South African economy. Strategies are needed to ensure services contribute to dynamism in the economy. Stimulating trade in services is one means to enhance service industry contribution to growth. In this paper, Mayer reviews the South African policy environment for services trade and…
read more >>Liberalisation of Trade in Services in South Africa: The Multilateral Dimension
by STEUART, I., 2005Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
The services sector is an increasingly important dimension of South Africa’s economic development, in terms of both its contribution to growth and its export potential. While exposing the services sector to international competition has the potential to unleash significant gains, deep and justified concerns regarding unemployment, poverty alleviation and universal access to basic services have…
read more >>Leveraging Services for Growth, Employment & Equity. Project Overview
by Altman, M., 2005Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Services account for the majority of employment creation globally. Yet economic policy often treats service sectors as a residual consideration in their growth and employment strategies. The HSRC supported the cluster of South African economic departments to frame explicit strategies towards the services sectors. This report was an early contribution, to offer a framework for…
read more >>Which Sectors Can Be Engines of Growth and Employment in South Africa? An Analysis of Manufacturing and Services
by TREGENNA, F. , 2007Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Tregenna investigates whether manufacturing still has the potential to be the engine of growth in South Africa, or whether services can play this role in future. International comparisons reveal that while the share of manufacturing value added in South Africa is high for the country’s level of income, the share of manufacturing employment is less…
read more >>South African Mining Sector Employment: Forecast To 2025
by BAARTJES, N., 2011Research report, Centre for Poverty Employment and Growth, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria
Baartjes focuses on trends in mining employment in South Africa, per sector, and includes a long-term forecast. He provides a profile of employment in the sector from 1995 to 2010, and discusses input shocks (e.g. electricity supply) and the commodity boom. He then reviews the primary mining sectors – gold, platinum group metals, coal, diamonds, iron…
read more >>Accounting for Changes in Manufacturing employment in South Africa
by TREGENNA, F. , 2007Globalization and Development: A Handbook of new perspectives, Oxford University Press, October
Tregenna assesses the components and possible causal determinants of changes in manufacturing employment in South Africa. She focuses on the relationships between capital stock, capacity utilisation, relative factor utilisation, and employment. Basic decomposition techniques are used to investigate the extent to which these factors account for changes in employment between 1970 and 2004. Although this…
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