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Economic Development Programme for the RSA

Literature › Primary sources

Kind commission or official report
Producer Department of Planning / Office of the Prime Minister
Coverage 1965-1987
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Houghton and Dagut (1973) Economic Development Programme for the Republic of South Africa 1965-70 1965 Official forecast of white labour demand and supply.
Knight (1976a) Economic Development Programme for the Republic of South Africa 1974-1979 (Office of the Prime Minister) 1973-1979 Source of official labour force, non-farm and farm employment projections critiqued and then used for residual labour forecasts.
Marais (1981) Economic Development Programme for the Republic of South Africa 1978-1987, vol. 1 1960-1977 Source of the capital per worker, labour/output and productivity trend figures for manufacturing in the 1960s and 1970s.