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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer The Economist
Coverage 1931-1995
Works using it 4

Debates

Debate Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 3
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 3
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bowman (n.d.) The Economist, 'Anti-apartheid without tears; the disengager's tale' (30 March 1985), Survey March 1985 Source for over $5 billion of South African stock 'disinvested' by 1985.
Lowenberg (1997) The Economist, May 20, 1995 Survey and September 9, 1995 1995 Cited for the conglomerate ownership structure and the 19 separate education departments under apartheid.
Rodman (1994) Economist articles ("Loss of Business Confidence Is a Sanction on South Africa", 21 June 1986) 1986 Supports claims on capital flight (over-invoicing, under-invoicing, dividends), recession and loss of business confidence.
Strauss (1993) The Economist (London), 27 February-5 March 1993 February-March 1993 Source for the proposed constituent assembly and government of national unity.