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Bureau for Economic Research wage and Bantu development reports

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Kind commission or official report
Producer Bureau for Economic Research, Stellenbosch
Coverage 1960-1985
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Kerby (2016a) Official wage sources: Bureau for Economic Research (1976), Gottschalk (1977), Carnegie Commission working papers (Thomas, Abedian, Ardington, Bank, McCarthy 1983-84) and Wilson and Ramphele (1989) 1971-1985 Used to test and supplement unofficial wage estimates and identify the lowest-wage zones.
Kerby (2016b) Bureau for Economic Research: Bantu Development (1976) wage report and Gottschalk (1977) wage survey 1971-1975 Official and survey wage benchmarks used to validate the newspaper and almanac wage data and fill the 1970 baseline.
Simkins (1981) BENBO, Black Development in South Africa (Swart Ontwikkeling in Suid-Afrika), 1976, tables B.7.2, B.9.4 1960-1970 Homeland GDP shares, agricultural production for 1968-9 for comparison, and an index for extrapolating post-1965 values.