South African Reserve Bank data and publications

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	international trade or finance data
Producer	South African Reserve Bank
Coverage	1955-2003
Works using it	4

Project holdings

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Debates

Debate	Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Davies (1979b)	South African Reserve Bank, Annual Economic Report 1977	1974/5-1976/7	Documents decline in long-term foreign investment inflow and net capital outflow in 1976/7.
Kerby (2016a)	South African Reserve Bank exchange-rate series (commercial rand, financial rand, NT$:Rand)	1972-1996	Documents rand depreciation against the NT dollar and dual-currency system to explain investment motives.
Obi (2006)	Reserve Bank exchange-rate data (Rand/US$ real exchange rate; effective exchange rate from 1971) and Van der Merwe (1996) historical account	1955-2003	Builds the continuous real exchange rate series (rsaus/russa) used as an explanatory variable.
Obi (2006)	South African Reserve Bank time series KBP5548J and related: foreign liabilities, direct investment by private non-banking sector, other short-term and long-term capital	1956-2003 (1955 imputed)	Proxy for foreign buyers' purchases of farmland (rfbsph, rfblph) in the regression.
Sitas et al. (1984)	South African Reserve Bank, Quarterly Bulletin, June 1973	1967-1972	Evidence for the foreign capital inflow of 1967-1972.