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 >>Identifying employment creating sectors in South Africa
by ALTMAN, M., 2005Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Will Government’s current policy priorities and plans in relation to the formal services sector guide the economy towards its 2014 target of halving unemployment? Net new employment has mainly been found in formal and non-formal services. Given the structure of the SA economy, it is most probable that future employment will also be sourced from…
read more >>Quantifying the Outsourcing of Jobs from Manufacturing to Services
by TREGENNA, F. , 2008South African Journal of Economics Vol. 76:S2 August 2008
There has been debate internationally and in South Africa about the extent to which a relative decline in manufacturing employment and rise in services employment can be accounted for by intersectoral outsourcing of jobs in the domestic economy. This article develops a new methodology for testing for and quantifying outsourcing at an economy-wide level. This…
read more >>The Contribution of Manufacturing and Services to Employment Creation and Growth in South Africa
by TREGENNA, F. , 2008South African Journal of Economics Vol. 76 August 2008
Tregenna examines the linkages between the manufacturing and services sectors. It also looks at linkages between these two sectors and the rest of the domestic economy. Tregenna does this by analysing input-output tables and employment trends. This reveals that manufacturing is particularly important as a source of demand for the services sector as well as…
read more >>Dynamic and Follower Sectors
by ALTMAN, M & NGANDU, S, 2008Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Altman and Ngandu consider the role of different kinds of sectors’ contribution to growth and employment. Historically, goods production and exports have been a central focus of employment strategies. However, a growing majority of employment created globally is found in services, which are often considered to be non-traded sectors. This raises concerns for policy that…
read more >>Issues of Growth and Employment Concerning the Manufacturing and Services Sectors in South Africa
by TREGENNA, F. , 2006Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
There has been much talk in recent years, both in South Africa and internationally, of the rise of the services sector. Manufacturing is regarded by some as no longer being able to generate economic growth and employment on the scale required in a country such as South Africa. Others have concern that there is a…
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