Leveraging Services for Growth, Employment and Equity: Services Strategies: Reaching 2014 Employment Targets
Altman explores whether government’s current policy priorities and plans for the formal services sector are sufficient to guide the South African economy towards its 2014 target of halving unemployment. Over the past seven years, net new employment has mainly occurred in formal and non-formal services. Given the structure of economy, it is probable that future…
read more >>Foreign Tourism’s Contribution Towards Growth and Job Creation in SA
Lowitt considers the potential contribution of tourism and related services to future growth and employment in South Africa. This is the final report. It offers a useful analysis of the tourism sector, and was ultimately used as a background study for the Human Sciences Research Council’s Employment Scenarios.
read more >>Sector Studies and Employment Scenarios: A View of South Africa’s Tourism Sector (Preliminary Findings)
Lowitt explores the potential contribution of tourism and related activity to future growth and employment in South Africa. This paper was an early preliminary assessment.
read more >>Leveraging Services for Employment, Growth and Equity: Stakeholder Mapping
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 Employment, Growth and Equity: Policy Scan and Gap Analysis: Government Initiatives to Promote Trade in Services
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
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…
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