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national_accounts_macro: other unattributed figures

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Kind national accounts macro
Producer Not specified
Coverage 1918-1993
Works using it 11

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? 5
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(ed.) et al. (1987) Nel's 1986 national accounts-type statistics for Flat Rate Tax revenue estimate 1986 Remuneration, net operating surplus and property income used to estimate potential Flat Rate Tax yield.
Davies et al. (1976) National income and sectoral output statistics 1939-1945, wartime tax and labour data 1939-1945 Documents manufacturing expansion, gold taxation and labour shortages during the war.
Fedderke and Luiz (2008) Investment rate series INVRAT (net change in fixed capital stock of machinery and equipment) 1954-1992 Dependent variable in the investment equation.
Fedderke and Luiz (2008) Real GDP series (LNRGDP) 1954-1992 Proxy for expected returns on capital and for economic development in the modernization test.
Heintz (2002) Real GDP annual rate of change, used to date business cycles (1972-75, 1985-92) 1972-1992 Used to identify trough-to-trough business cycles over which explanatory variable changes are averaged to compute contributions to the fall in accumulation.
Heintz (2002) Sectoral panel data on non-residential fixed capital stock, after-tax profit rate, real value added, and user cost of capital for seven core sectors, 1970-93 (as used in Heintz 2001 dissertation) 1970-93 Panel data underpin the investment-function estimates in Table 1 of the effects of profit, political unrest, accelerator and user cost on accumulation.
Iliffe (1999) Pulp and paper share of manufacturing GDP, 1990 1990 Illustrates the economic environment favouring very large enterprises.
Innes and Plaut (1978) National Income figures, 1918 and 1939 (national income and manufacturing share), source unspecified 1918-1939 Establishes rapid growth and the rising manufacturing share of national income that the authors say needs explaining.
Lipton and Lipton (1994) Unattributed national accounts figures on agriculture's share of GDP (20% in 1950 to about 6% now) 1950 to early 1990s Supports the claim of premature 'deagriculturization' compared with countries of similar GDP per head.
Moll (1996a) GDP per capita, 1980-1993 (national accounts) 1980-1993 Establishes that per capita output fell while covered-sector wages rose, supporting the claim of a widening differential.
Overseas Development Institute (1986) Aggregate national figures on exports, imports, GDP, foreign liabilities, foreign loans, direct investment and foreign debt (unattributed) 1970-1985 Establishes South Africa's external vulnerability: trade/GDP ratios, gold's role, foreign liabilities and debt structure.
Overseas Development Institute (1986) Unofficial unemployment estimates and growth rate series 1965-1985 (unattributed) 1965-1986 Documents declining growth and rising unemployment (over 3 million, 25% of workforce).
Schneider (2000) Value added in manufacturing as share of GDP, 1919 and 1965 (source not given) 1919-1965 Documents the rise of manufacturing from 7% to 24% of GDP and its subsequent stagnation.
World Bank (1994) National accounts GDP, population and per-capita GDP series (GDP growth since 1965, per-capita negative since 1982) 1960s-1993 Establishes the long-run decline in GDP growth and negative per-capita growth.