Economic Development Programme of the Republic of South Africa

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	South African government
Coverage	1974-1987
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Davies (1979a)	Economic Development Programme of the Republic of South Africa 1976-1981	1976-1981 projections	Supplies projected annual growth rates of the economically active population underlying the 1990 projections in Table 2.
Davies (1979b)	Economic Development Programme of the Republic of South Africa 1976-1981	1976-1981	Supplies projected growth of the economically active population by race underlying the Table 2 projections to 1990.
Greenberg (1987)	Republic of South Africa, Economic Development Programme (1978-87)	1960-1987 (projections)	Supplies unemployment estimates and projections, manufacturing employment growth, capital-stock-per-employee and capital-output ratio trends.
Knight (1976b)	Economic Development Programme for the Republic of South Africa 1974-1979 (Prime Minister's office)	1970-1980 projections	Official projections of population, labour force, non-farm and farm employment and the unemployment method, which the author uses and criticises.