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Kind national accounts macro
Producer Various
Coverage various
Works using it 10

Debates

Debate Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Carrillo et al. (2023b) Life expectancy series for South Africa 1960-1980 (theglobaleconomy.com) 1960-1980 Used to argue mortality attrition among older cohorts is minor.
Cobbe (1986) Central Bank of Lesotho Quarterly Review 3 (4th quarter 1984): GNP, balance of payments, labour income from abroad 1983 Gives GDP of about M340 million and migrant labour income of M470 million, showing earnings exceed GDP.
Curtis (1984) Jill Nattrass, The South African Economy (1981) – GDP series 1950-1979 Establishes GDP growth from R4.4bn to R15.5bn in constant 1970 prices.
Giliomee (1995) Calculations on consumer and investment spending by Rudolf Gouws, Rand Merchant Bank (used by Finance Minister Derek Keys) 1983-1991 Supports claims that investment fell while government consumption spending rose, with comparisons to Chile and Hungary.
Hendrie (1976a) Statistical Survey in connection with the Budget Speech 1976-77, W.P. 8-'76 1970-1974 Source of the 1971-74 GDP share figures for agriculture, forestry and fishing in Table 1.
Kaplinsky (1995) Manufacturing share of GDP series: Houghton (1967), Nattrass (1988) and IDC database (1992) 1950-90 Charts the share of manufacturing in GDP (Figure 1), showing stabilisation at 23-25% after the mid-1970s.
Massie (1997) U.S. direct investment figures and statements by trade mission head Hendrik van Eck (1961) 1914-1961 Quantifies growth of U.S. investment in South Africa from $50.7m prewar to about $600m in 1961.
Nattrass (1976c) South Africa 1974 / South Africa 1974, Department of Information (GDP, subsistence and agricultural output) 1970 Supplies GDP, subsistence and agricultural output figures against which estimated KwaZulu remittances are compared.
Nattrass (1977) National Accounts of the Bantu Homelands, 1969/70 to 1973/74, Report 09-17-01 1969/70-1973/74 Provides subsistence production growth (11,6% p.a.), homeland GDP and subsistence income used for Black income estimates and remittance comparisons.
Sender (1994) MERG model projections, Table A.24 projections to 2000 and 1993-2004 Used to show that over 20 per cent of the black economically active population would remain in the unskilled low-wage category by 2000, and that real pre-tax wages would grow only about 1 per cent a year.