SARB, A Statistical Presentation of South Africa's National Accounts (Supplement to Quarterly Bulletin)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	national accounts macro
Producer	South African Reserve Bank
Coverage	1946-1980
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bell and Padayachee (1984)	South African Reserve Bank, A Statistical Presentation of South Africa's National Accounts for the Period 1946 to 1980, Supplement to Quarterly Bulletin, September 1981	1946-1980	Provides the real interest rate and manufacturing employment, output and capital stock series in Table 2, used to test the capital-labour substitution hypothesis.
Hendrie (1976a)	South African Reserve Bank, A Statistical Presentation of South Africa's national accounts for the period 1946 to 1970	1946-1970	Source of agriculture's percentage contribution to GDP, 1950-1970 (Table 1).
Nattrass (1977)	SARB, A Statistical Presentation of South Africa's National Accounts 1946-1970 (Supplement to Quarterly Bulletin, June 1971)	1946-1970	Source of personal consumption expenditure for Table 4 and of net national income comparison in Table A.
Sitas et al. (1984)	South African Reserve Bank, Statistical presentation of South Africa's National Accounts 1946-1970, Table 15	1946-1970	Supports the claim that post-war industrial growth was financed mainly by domestic savings.