South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin / national accounts database

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	national accounts macro
Producer	South African Reserve Bank
Coverage	1910-2002
Works using it	12

Project holdings

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Debates

Debate	Works
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	6
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	4
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	3
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	3
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bell and Madula (2001)	South African Reserve Bank database (national accounts: GDP, sectoral value added, MVA, exports/imports, fixed capital stock, capacity utilisation index) 1946-2000	1946-2000	Underlies the growth-rate calculations for GDP, MVA, mining value added, exports/imports and capital stock in Tables 1, 4, A1, A5 and Figures 1, 2, A1-A3.
Fedderke (2006)	South African Reserve Bank real GDP series, 'old' and 'new' (revised) measures, 1970s-1990s	1970-1998	Establishes the long-run decline in real GDP and per-capita GDP growth and tests whether GDP revisions change the picture.
Kerby (2016a)	SARB Quarterly Bulletin: public-sector infrastructure gross fixed capital formation series	1960-1996	Index of infrastructure investment used to argue Phase 2 decentralisation was driven by infrastructure rather than incentives.
Kerby (2016a)	South African Reserve Bank register of foreign liabilities (Quarterly Bulletin, Appendix S71), 1979-1997	1979-1997	Used to show Asian and Taiwanese foreign liabilities and the direct versus non-direct asset composition.
Kerby (2016b)	SARB national accounts series: gross fixed capital formation, GDP, exchange rates, gold and mining shares	1950-1999	Supports the infrastructure-versus-incentive argument, phase periodisation and rand/NT$ exchange-rate context.
Malherbe and Segal (2001a)	South African Reserve Bank national accounts series on capital stock, gross domestic investment and savings by institutional sector (Tables 1-5), plus the labour productivity series in Figure 1	1910-1999 (sector breakdowns from 1950)	Shows that private and state-owned corporations own most of the capital stock and account for most investment and savings, and traces long-run growth and productivity decline.
Mariotti (2008)	South African Reserve Bank, Quarterly Bulletin (real GDP)	1950-1980	Real GDP and growth used to show no obvious macroeconomic change around the period of labour market adjustment.
Nattrass (1977)	B.L. de Jager, Fixed Capital Stock and Capital-Output Ratio of South Africa 1946-1972 (SARB Quarterly Bulletin, June 1973) with South African Statistics 1976 Table 7.4	1950-1972	Computes the manufacturing capital-labour ratio's growth (2,5% p.a.) to test the claim of rising capital intensity.
Nattrass (1990)	Published and unpublished Central Statistical Services and South African Reserve Bank data (national accounts series on wages, output, capital stock, manufacturing/mining/core sectors, 1948-60)	1948-1960	Underlies the wage, available output, wage share and profit share growth rates in Tables Two to Five and the rate-of-profit calculations.
Nattrass and Seekings (2010b)	South African Reserve Bank data on GDP growth, current account, sectoral real value-added and profit rates (Figures 2-5)	1947-2001; profit rates 1960-2001	Shows balance-of-payments constraints, structural change, and declining net profit rates by sector under apartheid.
Perkins et al. (2005b)	South African Reserve Bank database (national accounts: GDP, gross fixed capital formation and fixed capital stock of public-sector economic infrastructure, 1995 prices)	1946-2002 (GDP); infrastructure investment and capital stock series c.1960-2002	Supplies real GDP and public-sector infrastructure investment and capital stock, the key variables in the PSS F-tests and in the decline of investment since 1976.
Van Zyl et al. (1987a)	South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin, March 1986	1986	Source for agriculture's share of labour force (15.4%) and GNP (about 6%).
Van Zyl et al. (1987b)	South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin, March 1986	1986	Gives commercial agriculture's share of total employment and of GNP.