World Bank reports on South Africa and region

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	World Bank
Coverage	1966-2007
Works using it	8

Debates

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	3
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	3
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	2
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
(organiser) et al. (2008)	World Bank study on odious debts (paper funded by Norway)	c. 2007	Quoted by Kaiser as the creditor-side position that no usable concept of odious debts exists, which frames the NGO agenda.
Becker (1988)	Internal World Bank documents on Malawi; Christiansen and Kydd (1983)	1966-1977	Supports the claim that Malawi absorbed returned miners while smallholder output per head rose.
Bell (1995)	World Bank (Belli et al, 1992) review of South African trade policies	early 1990s	Cited to show South Africa was not an overly protected economy.
Bond (2004)	World Bank (2002), South Africa: Monitoring Service Delivery in Johannesburg	2002	Documents the Bank's role in Johannesburg's 2030 strategy and local economic development methodology.
Crush and Jeeves (1993)	World Bank (1992a, 1992b, 1992c) reports on post-apartheid agrarian policy	1992	Cited as an example of external policy definition that the issue's contributors say lacks local and historical sensitivity.
Lipton and Lipton (1994)	Duncan et al. 1992 (World Bank, agricultural marketing and pricing); Sunnyside Group 1991 (red meat industry); Lipton 1993	1991-1993	Cited for oligopolistic structures linking Marketing Boards and large processors, blocking small-scale operators.
Sender (1994)	World Bank, South African Agriculture: Structure, Performance and Implications for the Future (Draft, 1993)	1993	Evidence cited by MERG on agricultural wages and employment.
Williams (1996)	Roth, Dolny and Wiebe, 'Employment, Efficiency and Land Markets in South Africa's Agricultural Sector' (Land Tenure Centre, Wisconsin, draft 1992)	1992	Identified as the main report of the Bank's agricultural sector initiative and origin of passages repeated by Christiansen.
Williams (1996)	World Bank Options Annexes 1-4 and de Klerk models (assumptions, imputed rentals, interest rates, administration costs)	1993	Williams re-examines model assumptions (interest rates, administrative costs, R3.5bn per annum) to show costs are understated.
Williams (1996)	World Bank, 'Executive Summary, South Africa Rural Restructuring Programme' and 'Terms of Reference' (mimeo, 1993)	1993	Used to show the programme's guiding aims, resettlement emphasis and administrative options.
Williams (1996)	World Bank, 'Options for Land Reform and Rural Restructuring in South Africa' (LAPC, Johannesburg, October 1993)	1993	Primary object of critique: its proposals, indicative models, cost estimates and 30% redistribution example are examined.
Williams (1996)	World Bank, 'South African Agriculture: Structure, Performance and Options for the Future' (Washington, 1994; draft 5 August 1993)	1993-1994	Source of the Bank's claims on efficiency, scale, TFP, subsidies, marketing and prices that Williams assesses against the evidence cited.